[wplug] [wplug-plan] Why is there no rebuild of SLES?

[John Lewis]

Sorry, I thought I sent it to the main list.

On 02/11/2015 01:33 PM, Justin Smith wrote:
> As I understand, the powers that be consider OpenSUSE to be SUSE's 
> equivalent of CentOS even though it's really more similar to Fedora. 
> OpenSUSE Factory is similar to Fedora Rawhide, while OpenSUSE releases 
> are somewhere between Fedora and CentOS in terms of features and 
> stability. 
>
> Novell /does/ release source RPMs for SLES, but they aren't used in a 
> source rebuild because SLES's community is much smaller and focuses on 
> integration with proprietary software. Remember how Novell made that 
> infamous licensing deal with Microsoft?
>
> OpenSUSE is a good steward of the community, though. It contributes time 
> and development resources to crucial resources in the FOSS community 
> such as LibreOffice and KDE.
>
> This doesn't really have anything to do with organizational planning, so if 
> you'd like to continue this conversation, let's keep it here on the main 
> mailing list instead of wplug-plan.
>
> On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 12:02:37 PM John Lewis wrote:
>> I have a question to all of you Suse fans out there. Why is there no
>> rebuild of SLES similar to the RHEL rebuild called CentOS?
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>
> *Justin Smith*
> GNU/Linux System Administrator
>
> /"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; 
> nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will 
> not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is 
> full of educated derelicts."/
>
> /-Calvin Coolidge/
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