Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (145 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Boyd Lynn Gerber<gerberb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are basically four options.  From the new wiki I set up on
>
> http://www.zenez.com/mediawiki/openSLE-openSUSE_LTS-wiki/index.php5/Overview_of_Initiative
>
> They are as follows.
>
> 1. openSUSE [4] Server CD
>
> Server Edition, somewhat alike the GNOME and KDE media
> https://features.opensuse.org/305664.
>
> 2. openSUSE [5] LTS longer term security and support, community driven
> complete release.
>
> 3. openSUSE [6] LTS subset (a reduced core of openSUSE[7])
>
> with mainly Server SW.
>
> 4. openSLES a CentOS equivalent for SLES[8] based on SUSE Linux
> Enterprise[9].
>
> I see only 1, 3, 4 as really possible given the current people that have
> said they are willing to work on the options.
>
> From personal emails to me on options 3 and 4.  It currently stands as
> 23/23.  Option 3 could be done on the OBS in league with factory.  Option 1
> needed a community maintainer/s.  As per openFATE.
>
> https://features.opensuse.org/305664
>
> I hope this clears up what I see as the options currently available.
>
> [4,5,6,7] http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org
> [8] http://www.novell.com/products/server/
> [9] http://www.novell.com/linux/
>
>
> Thanks,
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I would like to see option 1 & 3 combined into one.

ie. OpenSuse Server CD with LTS support.  No KDE, No Gnome, (No
audio!) just enough of a gui to help the home user / small bus. server
run web-yast, etc.

After all, if it is going to be option 3, you will need a way to tag
items as part of the LTS support system.  That seems to me to mean
unique yast repositories I'm afraid.

ie. If I install from the Server CD, then run yast I would only want
LTS supported packages to be offered to me.  If I choose to install a
package from the normal OpenSUSE repos or OBS, then I know right then
that I'm losing my LTS setup.

So if option 3 is going to require all of that, then it seems
appropriate to make it a full new OpenSUSE Server LTS Distro.  For the
first 18 months, the security patches just get imported from opensuse
and for the rest of the support timeframe the community less Novell
provides the security patches directly.

I don't think you need to offer this with every Opensuse release, but
maybe every other one, or even every third one.  After all server
functionality does not change near as fast as desktop functionality.

Greg
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