On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 7:24 PM Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2024-06-18 19:09, Shawn W Dunn wrote:
I absolutely wouldn't advocate for holding up progress in openSUSE, due to the needs of some third party proprietary package. VMWare or not.
Leap is compatible with SLES. I do not consider dropping support for important proprietary packages a good business selling point.
Maintaining complex code for the next 20 years, which additionally prevents you from introducing or enabling new features, isn't a good business model, too. So the question is: is a proprietary VMWare package a better business selling point than all the other features, which we could enable or introduce? I strongly doubt it. Especially with the current plans of Broadcom with VMWare. If somebody needs VMWare, the answer is SLES15. It will exist until the end of 2037 or so. I'm pretty sure that there will be no VMWare anymore you can install on your machine at that point in time, if Broadcom continues with the current changes. If you don't need VMWare, but want all the nice new features, SLES16 is then the OS of your choice. There is absolutely no reason that a new SLES or Leap version needs to be able to support SysV init scripts, something we deprecated a decade ago, today. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect, Future Technologies SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Frankenstraße 146, 90461 Nuernberg, Germany Managing Director: Ivo Totev, Andrew McDonald, Werner Knoblich (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)