Why Is There No Open Source SLES ? | Linux Today

Why Is There No Open Source SLES ?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 10, 2007

[ Thanks to Dag Wieers
for this link. ]

“Fabian pointed to an interesting article from a Red Hat
engineer about CentOS and Red Hat’s position. An interesting
question popped up that I asked myself before: ‘Why is there no
SLES alternative distribution?’ Given all the benefits a free
Enterprise Linux brings to Red Hat, Novell must be eager to want to
tap into this resource, right?

“One comment suggested that Novell did not release SRPMs and
therefore it was impossible to create a free SLES clone. Reality
seems a bit different: Novell does release SRPMs…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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