Pros Cons each options

Pros Cons each options

Work in Progress...

1. openSUSE [1] Server CD Server Edition, somewhat alike the GNOME and KDE media https://features.opensuse.org/305664.

2. openSUSE [2] LTS longer term security and support, community driven complete release.

3. openSUSE [3] LTS subset (a reduced core of openSUSE[4]) with mainly Server SW.

4. openSLES a CentOS equivalent for SLES [5] based on SUSE Linux Enterprise [6].

I see the following being the two choices that are possible to be successful.

openSLE

Pro

1. security fixes are already done for the lifetime of the release.

2. Smaller number of rpm's

3. Server oriented without a lot of clutter.

4. All that would be needed is to remove the branding and rebrand it for openSLE. A much smaller task.

5. Binary compatible for SLES.

Cons

1. Possiblity of antagonizing the Novell upper management.

2. Not the most politically acceptable solution

3. Needs legal advice to conform to legal requirements.

4. Needs a legal entity to control the SLES subscription and have the ability to get the patches to SLES. (Might be consi dered a pro)

5. May need community provided local BS.

openSUSE LTS (Same packages as in SLES but from openSUSE or a decided upon smaller set of Server centric openSUSE packages as, I do not see enough people stepping up to do the entire openSUSE version we choose to be an LTS. We really can not do every version. A man power issue as I see it. Orignally I was going to suggest we use the Same openSUSE version that SLES has taken, but right now I think we should make a choice of how many versions we skip. With the current 18 month schedule and say we support for 5 years or 4.5 years. Then we would take one version of every three. Or in other words Say we start will ll.2. We would skip 11.3 and 11.4/12.0 and the next version would be 11.5/12.1 that we would make an LTS version.

Pros

1. No real legal issues.

2. The ability to choose just the OSS easily.

3. Large base of openSUSE users.

4. Definitely ab le to use the OBS.

5. Community driven in all ways.

Cons

1. More packages that have to be paired down to a workable number.

2. Community driven in all ways.

3. Do we have enough people we trust to do back ports over the lifetime?

4. Need highly driven members as everything will be on their sholders.

5. I feel there will be more work with openSUSE LTS than with openSLE.