On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 23:30 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 09 June 2005 21:51, Hans du Plooy wrote:
I don't know how SUSE feels about package versions being updated by the client (me) but I don't think they like it very much.
I really don't think they care. You are free to install, rebuild or upgrade whatever you want on your machines. You just lose support, that's all [snip]
Unless you want to handle security updates yourself, you're more or less forced to upgrade after two years, because that's about the time you get security patches on the Professional products
Which is precisely why I question the value of buying SLES in this case. If I end up voiding the support and taking care of security myself, what's the point in buying SLES over SUSE Pro? SLES may be in theory the more stable option, but, honestly, I have SUSE Pro boxes that have been up for close to a year now, some of them slow machines that work very hard, and none of them have the sort of backup generator to the backup UPS to the UPS and clean stable power that the machines in the hosting facilities have. Anyway, as for the SLES/SUSE Pro issue, last time I set up SLES, I had to install a number of perl modules, for example, for software we wanted to run, and a number of things that comes with SUSE pro which don't come with SLES. Anyways, thanks for all the input. -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com