Re: What is the relationship between OpenSuse and SLED

Günther Schwarz wrote:
Because no one offering a distribution free of charge will have the
manpower and ressources to backport every single patch to outdated
program and kernel versions for such a long time. This is a service for
customers who are willing to pay for it.

OK.

So 5 years and very soon 11 will be coming out and then it will be
again 7 years.

So it is seven years provided you install just upon release ;-)

Did I say anything else?

I have seen hardware changed much before and much after that. At least
with SUSE you have the option to go 7 years.

Actually you don't unless you synchronize your hardware purchases with
the Novell release cycle.

Uhm. so what you are saying is that this is not by default, but if you
so desire, it is possible. Mmm. That is what I said.

We did not hear much from him and we learned that Lenovo indeed sells
notebooks with SLED installed. Which in this case will come with a
proper support contract.

That can be the case, but it can also be that the PC was from a compnay
and the company has a wholesale contract, in which case it could be
possible that there is no contract.

Also I do not know how long or even if the contract for updates is
included. I can imagine that you still have to buy the updates or that
just one or two years are included so to lower the initial purchace
price.

houghi
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