Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (194 mails)

[Markus Slopianka <markus.s@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

open-slx is planning an SLE 12 clone with the completely retarded name Balsam 
Enterprise, 
although I don't know if they plan that with community participation.

On Dienstag 27 September 2011 11:29:17 Michael Kromer wrote:
> Hello community,
>
> this mail is the result of years of continuous development in my (corporate
> and private) environment as engineer favoring SUSE, and I kindly invite
> anyone to send thoughts, comments and ideas regarding this mail. I see
> this topic "as in progress" and if there aren't any ultimately bad reasons
> why not to do so, I will continue and support this as long as I can.
>
> - Disclaimer: This is all IMHO ;) -
>
> My idea is to build a SLES binary-compatible distribution completely
> supported by the community (and optionally supported by companies which
> are willing to do so) - most of you will probably see lots of similarities
> with CentOS in this way - And in fact: This is exactly what I intend it to
> be.
>
> Why?
>
> - SLES is one of two key players in the major distribution league. RH has
> CentOS, and whereever you see "respins" like for appliances, they use
> CentOS (or maybe some debian/ubuntu/knoppix-stuff) - no SUSE. Examples:
> Trixbox, ESVA, and _lots_ of projects in which I've been involved in
> development however its not officially communicated as CentOS.
>
> - SUSE is the best Distro in terms of packaging and distribution technology
> (OBS), has a huge community-base and uses technology which IMHO is
> unmatched for various reasons such as KIWI (thx to Marcus Schaefer ;)).
>
> - openSUSE is a "moving target" in terms of its faster release cycle and it
> in fact is a problem that older releases disappear from the mirrors pretty
> soon. (I would not change anything here) - But: This doesn't really allow
> you a "LTS"-like behaviour if things change so fast.
>
> - SUSE has a great community of highly motivated and skilled guys (and
> gals) ;) - lots of developments in openSUSE find their way right into
> SLES, approved and tested by SUSE engineers.
>
> What I can and will provide:
>
> - I'm just building up a rack to provide various build nodes. Target arch's
> include: x86, x86_64, sparc64, ia64, ppc64. Most of the parts are already
> available, but since I'm currently moving and I need to get a stable
> permanent internet connection this could take up to 2 months. So this
> enables us right from scratch to set up a parallel OBS for the intial
> build setup. Official OBS could always be used as soon as we have reached
> a "staging" level where we can provide a base set of packages.
>
> - I will provide anyone with an account and try to build a full
> "infrastructure" which then should also should get the transition to
> "community-controlled" behaviour.
>
> For all (eventually) upcoming questions:
>
> - Yes, I do know about openSUSE Evergreen, but it lacks some points I've
> mentioned above like "Enterprise Features", 1-on-1-("binary")compatibility
> with SLES and the great quality work by SUSE to get SLES certified by
> OEM's etc. - and no one really points its OBS tree to build against
> Evergreen, it points it to major channels like SLES11, SLES11SP1, oS11.4,
> etc.
>
> - No, I do not want to work "against" SUSE or anything like that. The
> complete opposite is the case: Without SUSE this would not work well. In
> fact I really think SUSE also can profit from a community base around the
> SLES packages. Take a look at CentOS - Does it really hurt RHEL? I don't
> think so, at least not to a major extent. Lets get the facts straight: If
> you are in a corporate environment you _will_ (or at least you _should_)
> buy a SLES. Reasons: Support, Updates, Faster upstream process, tracking,
> direct contact, etc. But: If you want to build a steady home system which
> you do not want to upgrade less than every year in a major way or you
> might want to build a distro fork for special purpose (like for system
> integrators, etc.) you (probably) wouldn't want to go with the fully blown
> SLES.
>
> - Yes, I see this as lots of work. Please let me know if you are willing to
> help. ;)
>
> Can't await reading your comments.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - mike
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