Hi, I tried to figure out (via the SLES support) when SLES 11 will be released. The answer was that SLES 11 will likely (not guaranteed) have a common code base with opensuse 11.1 and thus should appear in spring 2009 or so. More detailed information couldn't be given due to legal issues.
Maybe I can get some general statements about this topic from some openSuSE and SLES developers here, I don't know where else to discuss this. So far, SLES was supposed to be released in a 2-year-cycle, from 8 to 10 it was even less (22 months). With the information from the support I wonder if this 2-year period is still targeted at or not. It looks like opensuse 11.0 will take very long according to the schedule. To keep the 2-year-cycle for SLES, SLES11 would have to share the code base with openSuSE 11.0 (and even then it would be short due to the 2-3 months delay between the SuSE and the SLES version in the past). When sharing with openSuSE 11.1 and assuming the same long development cycle for 11.1 as for 11.0, SLES 11 would indeed appear sometime in spring 2009. Thus, being closer to a 3-year-cycle than to a 2-year. Maybe the decision about SLES 11 and the code base for it hasn't been made yet, but I would like to know what's the general plan for the future. Will Novell try to keep the 2-year release cycle for SLES? If not, we must consider switching to sth. else :-( 2 years is already hard for servers that we use for software development, webservices and things like that. The repositories make it possible to stay with one SLES for 2 years, but after that we need a fresh, up-to-date installation with all the lastest tomcat stuff etc. (and yes, Crispin, of course I'm also worrying about our "SLES for servers, same SuSE codebase for clients" setup that we discussed once in the past ;-) Although I'm able to work around this now with a combined SLES+SLED installation :-)) cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
