Re: What is the relationship between OpenSuse and SLED

Günther Schwarz wrote:
No. This is all fixable. The key is the ... well.. key that
you register.

It all depends on the details of the contract. In my case this won't be
fixable. I do not have to register, and I do not get anything from
Novell. Moving the machine away from my network means cutting if off
from updates.

_IF_ you move away the machine from the network, the issue _IS_ fixable
by registering with Novell yourself. The fact that you do not want to do
that is understandable, yet it _IS_ possible.

If you follow how security fixes make their way through the various big
Linux distributions you might have noticed that it is hard to predict
the order in which they arrive. Sometimes Novell or Red Hat are first,
but quite often Debian will react faster than the commercial teams.

Yes, because they have much more to test and to loose if an update
creates a security hole. they have contracts with a LOT of big
businesses and have more to loose then just face.

Any idea how much it costs if a bankserver goes down? So they check,
check, re-check and doublecheck.

As for bugs and simply bad software: Novell does get away since years
with questionable solutions for updates. While rug used in the
enterprise version is better than zypper it is still using much to much
ressources and has proven to lack in usability and failproof
functioning in my case. So there is still much room for improvements,
and thumbs up for cron-apt and Debian as far as automatic updates are
concerned.

Obviously you have not tried the openSUSE 11.0 which is the basis for
SLE 11 because then you would have noticed that much improvement
already has been done.

Just curious. What is so different in usage (you already talked about
resources) that makes cron-apt so much better then what I do now with
the YaST updater.

houghi
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