suse@rio.vg wrote:
Unfortunately, every release of SuSE is on a clock. Two years until updates stop. That's a mighty impetus to use the latest release.
That depends on how you run your shop. We've got one old 7.1 system, that has only received new kernels and some minor application updates over the last 3-4 years. Never had a single SUSE-upgrade applied, all done by hand. No need to upgrade. We also have a couple of production servers running 8.2 - same situation. What you're saying only applies if you rely exclusively on SUSE providing all your updates. And with that kind of dependency I would opt for e.g. SLES instead.
It certainly smells like a Novell exec demanding that ZenWorks be included in 10.1 at a late date in some sort of attempt to increase ZenWorks Suite sales... this is what many of us have been worried about.
I agree, that's very much what it smells like. /Per Jessen, Zürich