[TriLUG] SLES9

Jason Faulkner jasonlf at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 17:53:49 EST 2005


On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:44:36 -0500, James Brigman <jbrigman at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> John - SLES9 was released last Thanksgiving. However, even though I was
> doing a head-to-head comparison to RHEL3 (3, not 4) and talking to
> Novell's field engineering and marketing people, I was never able to get
> ISO images of the new release. The kept getting "lost in the mail". I
> have yet to see actual, in the flesh SLES9. It wouldn't surprise me if
> there were some kind of problem during/after the release that made SuSE
> softpedal it.
> 
> As a side note, SLES9 is not to be confused with SuSE Pro 9.2, which has
> been on the shelves at CompUSA and available from your favorite distro
> distributor for many moons. I have run SLES Pro since 8.0 and have found
> it a very satisfying and complete distro. SuSE enrichens the KDE desktop
> in very real and positive ways that enhance the usefulness and
> performance of the distribution, making it look very good. Sax breaks
> sometimes, but you can fix that by running Xconfig. - JKB
> 
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 14:54 -0500, John Turner wrote:
> > Is SLES9 GA out?  I have asked for this and was told that only a
> > evaluation version was out. But I was able to find an SP1 for SLES9 GA,
> > so that makes me think different.
> >

I have SLES9 cds, I got them from the Novell booth at the Desktop Linux Summit.

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