About the name. I don't know. But probably it would be best to avoid using the terms "SLES" "SuSE," etc. In terms of the software product itself, I think it would be inefficient to create a new distribution. What I am getting at is ideally we would be a clone of CentOS but based on SLE. Thus, for example, we can achieve binary compatibility with software for SLES. I don't think the prominence of RHEL would be what it is without CentOS, IMO the Linux market for commercial software would have been more segmented. Is Novell really against an free (as in beer) clone of SLES, and would they do anything to stop us? What are the legal considerations, namely: what parts of SLES are not distributed under the GPL or other open licenses? How much work would it take to build such a distribution? Further reading: http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/1331247 http://dag.wieers.com/blog/why-is-there-no-open-source-sles -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org