Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (441 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:47:47AM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> On Thursday 05 March 2009 06:13:51 member greenarrow1 wrote:
> > [...]
> > I have been reading articles recently about Novell specifically their
> > financial condition and, of course, OpenSUSE.  I to am beginning to
> > wonder where OpenSUSE lies with Novell and are we just test subjects
> > for their improvement of SLED and SLES.  Is Novell trying to get
>
> You get everything in openSUSE that is in SLED and SLES as well (unless it's 
> closed source software that is not freely redistributable).   openSUSE 11.1 
> contains already nearly everything that SLE{D,S}11 will have and those things 
> that are missing (since SLE gets released later) might hit openSUSE 11.1 as 
> updates or have been added to the factory tree targetting openSUSE 11.2.
>
> openSUSE is an own distribution where we make also changes that are not 
> needed 
> for SLE at all but are needed for the openSUSE community.

"also changes that are not needed for SLE" - alright. But what about
*conflicting* changes?

(Totally naive question. I can't actually think of an example right now,
I'm more conceiving that such conflicts could arise)

If we have a plot for dealing with this, it might serve to lessen
perveiced risks and concerns that the community might have about this.

Peter
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