Free Software Linux

I was just sitting down to write all about this, when I found David’s article explaining the new Extended Support Policy, so here that is instead, nice work David!

From the article:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or shortly SLES is a Linux distribution widely deployed by many enterprise environments. The first version SLES 8 was released in April 2001. The successor SLES 9 was released three years later in 2004. And the latest available revision SLES 10 was released in the middle of 2006. The prepared SLES 11 is planned for the current year 2008.

Let’s suppose we were using SLES since its starting point. We began to install SLES 8 on our servers. Then we upgraded some to SLES 9. And after all, we preinstalled a few new servers with SLES 10. So we began in 2001 and ended in 2008! Now, have you ever thought about your server lifetime? Or have you ever realised that your older installations would have to be migrated to the most recent release of SLES due to its maintenance and support cutoff?

Oh, and here is the official support policy and lifecycle pages, just in case you need the actual explanations and policies.

Enjoy,

RossB

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