SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is a Linux distribution supplied by Novell and targeted at the business market. It is targeted for servers, but can be installed on desktop computers for testing as well. New major versions are released at an interval of 24-36 months, while minor versions (called service packs) are released every 9-12 months. SUSE Linux Enterprise products, including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, receive much more intense testing than the openSUSE community product, with the intention that only mature, stable versions of the included components will make it through to the released enterprise product.
The current version is SLES 11, released March 24, 2009, which is developed from a common codebase with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and other SUSE Linux Enterprise products.
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[edit] History
SLES has been developed based on SUSE Linux by a small team led by Marcus Kraft and Bernhard Kaindl as principal developer who was supported by Joachim Schröder. It was first released on 31 October 2000 as a version for IBM S/390 mainframe machines.[1] In December 2000, the first enterprise client (Telia) was made public.[2] In April 2001, the first SLES for x86 was released.
SLES version 9 was released in August 2004. Service Pack 4 was released in December 2007. It is supported by the major hardware vendors—IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, Dell, SGI, Lenovo, and Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
SLES 9 is installed on NASA's supercomputer Columbia.[3]
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 was released in July 2006[4], and is also supported by the major hardware vendors. SLES 10 shares a common codebase with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10—Novell's desktop distribution for business use—and other SUSE Linux Enterprise products.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 was released on March 24, 2009 and include Linux kernel 2.6.27, Oracle Cluster File System 2, support for the OpenAIS cluster communication protocol for server and storage clustering, and Mono 2.0.[5]
JUGENE, a petaflops supercomputer at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany, uses SLES 11 as operating system.[6]
[edit] Product integration and bundles
SLES is also an important part of Novell Open Enterprise Server, which brings all the networking services that were previously available only on NetWare to the Linux platform.
SLES 10 uses:
[edit] See also
- SUSE Linux distributions
- Linux on zSeries
- List of Linux distributions
- Comparison of Linux distributions
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
[edit] References
- ^ SuSE: "SuSE Linux for S/390 available today"
- ^ silicon.com: "Linux mainframe ousts Sun servers at Telia"
- ^ NAS Computing Resources - Columbia Supercomputer
- ^ "Novell Delivers Next-Generation Platform for the Open Enterprise"
- ^ Morgan, Timothy Prickett (2008-03-25). "Novell Previews Features in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11". The Linux Beacon. http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb032508-story01.html.
- ^ Windeck, Christof (May 26, 2009). "Von 100 Teraflops bis 1 Petaflops: Drei neue Supercomputer in Jülich". Heise Online. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Von-100-Teraflops-bis-1-Petaflops-Drei-neue-Supercomputer-in-Juelich--/meldung/138409.
[edit] Further reading
- Jason Eckert. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Administration (Course 3037). pp. 760. ISBN 978-1418837310.
- Jason Eckert. Advanced SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Administration (Course 3038). pp. 432. ISBN 978-1418837327.
- Eckert, Jason (2007). SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Security. Course Technology. ISBN 978-1-4283-2223-3.
- Kuo, Peter; Jacques Beland (2005). SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 Administrator's Handbook. Novell Press. ISBN 978-0-672-32735-3.
- van Vugt, Sander (2006). The Definitive Guide to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Apress. ISBN 978-1-59059-708-8.
- Harris, Jeffrey; Mike Latimer (2005). Novell Open Enterprise Server Administrator's Handbook, SUSE LINUX Edition. Novell Press. ISBN 978-0-672-32749-0.
[edit] External links
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server product page
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Cool Solutions – tips & tricks, guides, tools and other resources submitted by the SUSE Linux Enterprise community
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