[GLLUG] Alternative to SUSE Enterprise Linux

[Richard Houser]

For the record, Mandriva has a similar version called 'Free' which the
commercial version is based on, although Mandriva does coordinate all the
releases.  Much of the development happens community style, like Debian
though.

With few exceptions, a well written RPM should work on all current versions
of Mandriva, RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, etc.  Search around for any
applications distributed as a single RPM for such distros and the applicable
spec file should be helpful.  Expect the only catchy parts to be figuring
out the name of any external packages you might require.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Sean O'Malley <picasso at madflower.com>wrote:

> IIRC the closest you are going to get is the trial version of SuSe or
> OpenSuse. They don't have source available for a number of their features.
> I don't know if it is still the case but at one time even yast was covered
> under their proprietary license and not legally available unless you had
> the SuSE license.
>
> RedHat has remained open and keeps their software opensource. They do have
> 3rd party licensed software they cannot release source code for, but they
> do a pretty good job of keeping that minimum which is why there can be a
> CentOS.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Marcus Rademacher wrote:
>
> > My company makes software products, and we need to test on multiple
> > platforms. Most of our Linux customers use either Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux
> > or SUSE Enterprise Linux. We have RHEL in house, but we'd like to get
> SUSE
> > as well. I'm aware of CentOS, and that it is virtually the same OS as
> RHEL
> > but without Red Hat trademarks. Is there such a distribution for SUSE
> Ent.
> > Linux? openSUSE isn't what I'm looking for here, but something that's a
> > CentOS-like entity, but for SUSE Enterprise Linux.
> >
> > Marcus
> >
>
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