I recently starting working in a place that uses a lot of SLES 11 SP2. I’m feeling a little lost and would like to get up to speed. I’ve been looking over the system admin documentation from the suse.org site. I have a couple questions.
What would be the equivalent OpenSuSE version be to SLES11 SP2?
You are realy lost, because you posted this in the “Unreviewed How To and FAQ” subforums, where it says clealy at the top:
“Please don’t ask product questions here”.
Which is further explained with"
This forum is NOT for asking questions,…
Thus this thread will be CLOSED for the moment and then moved to the Community par of Community and Fun: General Chit-chat.
BTW, you can stop wrigling your fingers a bit by writing openSUSE and not what you make out of it.
When this is to know more about SLES, you are at the wrong forums. Please then go to https://forums.suse.com (same username/password as here). Be aware of the fact that though there are some people here on the openSUSE forums that have SLED/SLES knowledge, many here do not even know what it is.
And about your question which version of openSUSE comes nearest to SLES, I can only say that versions 12.2 and 12.2 are current. 12.3 is to be released in 15 days. None of these is to be compared with SLES. SLES partly is based on experience gathered with openSUSE, but as it is due to be more stable and long life it will most probably use older software versions (with back-ported security patches of course). Also the packaging is different. But this is from what I understand, not from personal experience.
On Tue 26 Feb 2013 05:36:03 PM CST, pwjohnston wrote:
Hello,
I recently starting working in a place that uses a lot of SLES 11 SP2.
I’m feeling a little lost and would like to get up to speed. I’ve been
looking over the system admin documentation from the suse.org site. I
have a couple questions.
What would be the equivalent OpenSuSE version be to SLES11 SP2?
Do you think this document would be to old to be helpful?
‘SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Admin Skills: Norman McEntire: Amazon.com: Kindle Store’ (http://tinyurl.com/a47jug5)
Is there a book you guys would recommend for learning SLES11 SP2?
I have a few years working with Linux (Fedora/CentOS) so I’m pretty new
all around.
Thank You.
Hi
You can download SLE 11 SP2 for free, so why not run that? You can get
access to updates for 60 days when you activate it as well. Or install
into a virtual machine?
If you need additional development packages you can also download the
SLE SDK (an activated system wil add update repositories for this as
well).
Then there is always the Open Build Service for others.
There is lots of documentation at http://www.suse.com as well as on the
installed system with admin guides etc.
In answer to the openSUSE equivalent, hard to say as a basis it’s the
openSUSE 11.x range with enhancements.
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openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.28-2.20-desktop
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On 2013-02-26 20:12, malcolmlewis wrote:
> In answer to the openSUSE equivalent, hard to say as a basis it’s the
> openSUSE 11.x range with enhancements.
Each SLES version is based on one openSUSE release, then each service
pack departs a bit more, probably taking things from the current
openSUSE versions and ignoring others.
Hard to say which is the current equivalent. Better to install SLES
itself, I think.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
I posted here in the OpenSUSE forums as opposed to SUSE because whenever I look for answers on how to do things in SLES, I get instructions in OpenSUSE. I just figured OpenSUSE to SLES is like Fedora to RH/CentOS.
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:06:01 +0000, pwjohnston wrote:
> I just figured OpenSUSE to SLES is like Fedora to RH/CentOS.
Well, it is, but SLES10 (for example) used openSUSE 10.x (I forget which
specific version, but it was a specific version) as its starting point,
but then it is maintained separately, so the current SLES 10 SP isn’t
really anything other than “similar” to openSUSE 10.x.