[GLLUG] Alternative to SUSE Enterprise Linux

[bfdamkoehler]

A few days before you posted your email Suse had a free version (RC4) of 
their enterprise operating system, but the free offer ended by the time 
that you posted it. I also didn't know if your need was a one time thing 
or you needed to be able to get new versions as they come out. I saw 
this free offer when checking for new releases on distrowatch.org.

In my experience Suse is different than the other distributions that I 
run (Mandriva, Fedora, Centos, etc). For example, I run  version of the 
Postgres database that I built myself so that I could control where it 
lives, what options it has, etc. I used the startup script from Mandriva 
and it works fine on every distro that I run except Suse.

I have done a little bit of playing with both opensuse and the 
enterprise version. There doesn't seem to be radical differences between 
them, there is just more commercial software in the enterprise version. 
If your software works on opensuse I suspect that you will have few if 
any issues porting to the enterprise version.





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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