On Friday 08 April 2005 23:27, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I believe that Novell Linux Desktop (NLD) is currently layered above SLES 9.
So the base OS component is only getting updated once a year, but support is concievably available for 5 years.
SLES 9 isn't getting updated once a year. Depending on how you define updates, there are either no updates at all, or updates all the time. Major updates, as in feature upgrades, won't happen until SLES 10. Security fix and bug fix updates happen all the time
(ie. If you pay for the much more expense SLES 9 support you can get it for 5 years.)
I don't know how often the GUI aspects of NLD are going to be released, nor how long support will be available. As I understand it, purchasers of NLD are expected to buy support for every user ($50/yr for the duration?), but this gives them the right to pick up the phone and actually call someone who works for Novell. That is actually quite a bargain if I understand it right. (ie. phone support for MS product line is not included in the previously discussed prices, so they are not comparable.)
http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/pricing.html $50 is the upgrade protection, where you will automatically get any new versions that are released. As you can see from that page, there are many options