On Friday 12 August 2005 17:30, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Adrian Schroeter wrote:
Novell provides something called
1. SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 2. SuSE Linux Professional 3. Novell Linux Desktop
And now to that openSUSE is added. AFAI understand openSUSE is an offshoot of [2] SuSE Linux Professional. Is Novell still going to *separately* develop SuSE Linux Professional? (Red Hat does not develop anything other than RHEL, AFAIK.)
No, openSUSE does create SUSE Linux (Professional). There will different editions from it (and most likely not only two, since we do also special versions for magazines and so on), but the base will be the same.
So does this mean that Novell is going to continue SuSE Linux Enterprise Server and Novell Linux Desktop, and openSUSE is the open project that is going to continue SuSE 9.3 Pro into SuSE 10 and onwards?
yes, and the SUSE Linux base will also used later to create the next generation SLES and NLD.
Also, please tell me what are the target audiences for items 1 2 and 3 in the list above. Thanks.
I am not the marketing / product manager for these products, but in short 1. Server installations which do need to be very stable, together with a dedicated maintainance for a guaranteed (and longer) timeframe. 2. Very similar, but for company desktops 3. For home users, who want more current versions than in 1. and 2. and they can accept only a two year maintainance for security issues only. bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SuSE AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian@suse.de