Hi, in that post I'm picking up different points from the whole thread so don't be confused about where it ends up in the thread view ;-) So please let me summarize some of the important information. I (and others) feel there is a gap between openSUSE and Novell's SLE which needs to be filled somehow. My example was that I obviously won't buy SLES to run it on my hosted server for my personal non-commercial use but running openSUSE is also not really an option there because its very short lifetime. In some cases it's just not possible to update w/o too much risk and downtime. And a short excursion to Tumbleweed: I think this is pretty interesting and is what I'll probably run on my desktop at home and some other machines but it's still not something I would roll out on some systems. So this is not the solution I am looking for. Now coming back to the two options we discussed to fill the gap. I actually would prefer to have CentOS like thing because it can be maintained for a longer time as an LTS version is likely to be maintained. It's (mostly) binary compatible and therefore would probably be more attracting to business users. It was also said it would be less work what I do believe as well but it's not that cheap as some people may think. From some comments on the thread it's pretty clear that the "CentOS" thing currently could not use most of the openSUSE infrastructure and no protected trademarks. The work of rebranding and maintaining/paying the needed infrastructure is not to neglect. For the above reasons I don't want/cannot drive an effort to create an SLE clone. If someone wants to do it now it's time to step up as I don't think it makes sense to do both. (Feel free to send me a mail ;-)) If there won't be such a thing in the foreseeable future I will start to look into the "LTS" solution more seriously and will check with different people how to make it possible, setting up a coordination mailing list and so on.
As Wolfgang wrote in his blog post, the main idea here is to actually _try_ to do it, not discuss every potential problem and approach to death and, then, never actually try to implement it.
Yes, and unless someone starts an openSLE soonish I'll just start. But I still would appreciate if people join in ;-)
(**) really need to come up with a better name, it has nothing to do with what Canonical is doing for their Ubuntu LTS, and might sound misleading in that regard) -- what about "openSUSE EL" (Extended Lifetime) ?
Yeah ;-) openSUSE (E)nterprise (L)inux Actually I agree some sort of name would be nice but I'm not creative enough to come up with one. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org