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See also: SUSE Linux distributions
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Edition
SLES logo
SUSE Linux 11 with KDE 4.3
DeveloperSUSE
OS familyUnix-like
Working stateCurrent
Source modelOpen source
Initial releaseMarch 1994 (age 30–31)
Latest release11 SP1 / May 19, 2010 (2010-05-19)[1]
Marketing targetcommercial market (include Mainframes, Servers, Workstations, Supercomputers)
Available inMultilingual
Update methodZypper/YaST2
Package managerRPM Package Manager
PlatformsIA-32, x86-64, s390x, PowerPC, Itanium
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux)
UserlandGNU
Default
user interface		KDE Plasma Desktop, GNOME
LicenseGNU General Public License and Various.
Official websiteSUSE Linux Enterprise Server

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is a Linux distribution supplied by SUSE 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 3-4 years, while minor versions (called service packs) are released about every 18 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 SP1, released May 19, 2010, which is developed from a common codebase with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and other SUSE Linux Enterprise products.

History

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. Service pack 4 was released in April 2011. [6]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 [7] 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.[8] SLES 11 SP1 (released May 2010) rebased the kernel version to 2.6.32.[1]

The front node of JUGENE, a petaflops supercomputer at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany, uses SLES 10 as its operating system.[9]

IBM's Watson was built on IBM's Power7 systems using SLES. [10]

Version history

Release dates of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server versions.[11]

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
    • Initial release, 2004-08-03
    • SP1, 2005-01-19
    • SP2, 2005-07-07
    • SP3, 2005-12-22
    • SP4, 2007-12-12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
    • Initial release, 2006-06-17
    • SP1, 2007-06-18
    • SP2, 2008-05-19
    • SP3, 2009-10-12
    • SP4, 2011-04-12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
    • Initial release, 2009-03-24
    • SP1, 2010-06-02

Product integration and bundles

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.

Hypervisor kernels supported

SLES 10:

SLES 11 SP1:

  • Xen 4.0
  • kvm is also supported

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Novell Announces SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1
  2. ^ SuSE: "SuSE Linux for S/390 available today"
  3. ^ silicon.com: "Linux mainframe ousts Sun servers at Telia"
  4. ^ NAS Computing Resources - Columbia Supercomputer
  5. ^ "Novell Delivers Next-Generation Platform for the Open Enterprise"
  6. ^ Novell Offers Industry's Longest Enterprise Linux Support Program
  7. ^ Novell Ships SUSE Linux Enterprise 11
  8. ^ Morgan, Timothy Prickett (2008-03-25). "Novell Previews Features in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11". The Linux Beacon. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  9. ^ Windeck, Christof (May 26, 2009). "Von 100 Teraflops bis 1 Petaflops: Drei neue Supercomputer in Jülich". Heise Online. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  10. ^ IBM Watson runs SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Novell, Inc., 2011-02-15, retrieved 2011-02-15
  11. ^ "Novell Support Lifecycle". Retrieved 2011-08-11.

Further reading

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