SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SLES logo
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SUSE Linux 11 with KDE 4.3
Company / developer Novell, Inc.
OS family Unix-like
Working state Current
Source model Open source
Initial release March 1994 (age 15–16)
Latest stable release 11 / March 24, 2009; 10 month(s) ago (2009-03-24)[1]
Marketing target commercial market (include Mainframes, Servers, Workstations, Supercomputers)
Available language(s) Multilingual
Update method Zypper/YaST2
Package manager RPM Package Manager
Supported platforms IA-32, x86-64, PowerPC
Kernel type Monolithic (Linux)
Userland GNU
Default user interface KDE, GNOME
License GNU General Public License and Various.
Website SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is a Linux distribution supplied by Novell and targeted at the business market. It is targeted for servers, mainframes, and workstations 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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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.[2] In December 2000, the first enterprise client (Telia) was made public.[3] 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.[4]

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 was released in July 2006[5], 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.[6]

JUGENE, a petaflops supercomputer at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany, uses SLES 11 as operating system.[7]

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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:

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