long term support

[Chrysantine]

<cough>openSLES</cough>

[Zami2]

Originally Posted by Chrysantine

<cough>openSLES</cough>

Do you think a community version of SUSE Linux Enterprise would be easier to accomplish than an LTS OpenSUSE? I honestly don't know, but with new tools like OBS and SUSE Studio this might be the case. We would perhaps need to get rid of the brandings of SLES/D, but there would be a smaller amount of actual development (by the community) needed imho, because of Novell.

I started a topic about this on the Suse Studio forums/mailing list, but didn't get much of a response so far.

[Chrysantine]

Perhaps, perhaps not but it would surely increase the proliferation of SuSE in businesses.

Let's face it - many smaller businesses aren't interested in paying for SLED/SLES for the sole reason that they are stupidly expensive.

Having a free CentOS style distribution version would not only help acceptance but perhaps foster contributions and move more Windows based shops to Linux.