Does anyone here have any experience of Novell SuSE licencing? I need (for a customer) to obtain a 1-year subscription for SLES 10 (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server). The software itself is a free download from Novell, it's the updates via YaST that cost money.
I'm told by Novell that the part number I want is 874-005006 but I can find very few people actually selling that. Most sell an HP OEM version of the same (described as being "for Proliant servers"), and which is about half the list price of the proper (but unavailable) Novell part. What I can't work out is whether I can get away with buying the HP part (it'll run on a non-HP server), and whether that would be legitimate or not. I'm used to these tangled licencing issues with MS software, but not with Linux! Unfortunately the requirement for SLES10 is not something I have any control over. [Out of curiousity, thinking of SLES as a Novell equivalent to RedHat's RHEL, and knowing that there are free alternatives to RHEL such as CentOS and WhiteBox, are there any free equivalents to SLES? Note that OpenSuSE is not an equivalent, any more than Fedora is an equivalent to RHEL.] Whilst I'm quite happy to support a Linux distro in general, Novell SuSE would not be my first choice, and the end user will probably never need the updates anyway (the server will almost certainly be offline). -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
