On 1/3/22 12:57, Simon Lees wrote:
I am not a product manager so I don't get to make such decisions and can't really speak on behalf of them, but what I can say is the general use case that is put to us is we have customers who for example buy a new piece of hardware, provision it with the services they require and then expect not to need to touch that system again for the 5 year lifetime of the hardware other then for security updates. [..] This is one of the main usecases SLE has to support [..]
Most of my customers do not run SLE or other Linux distros on bare-metal anymore. Decisions SUSE takes now will take a while until next SLE15SP4 release and will take another 2-3 years before customers pickup this release in their deployment. Until then everything's horribly outdated. In practice this leads to custom build processes and really weird manual update processes. :-( Ciao, Michael.