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SLES 10.2, RHEL 5.2 Linux upgrades offer better Microsoft, IBM support

By | May 22, 2008, 9:36am PDT

Summary: The two largest commercial Linux providers have released updates to their distributions with enhanced virtualization features and better support for Microsoft and IBM environments. On Wednesday, Novell announced availability of its SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 and Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux 5.2 hit the streets. Novell’s interoperability pact with Microsoft is evident in the [...]

The two largest commercial Linux providers have released updates to their distributions with enhanced virtualization features and better support for Microsoft and IBM environments.

On Wednesday, Novell announced availability of its SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 and Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux 5.2 hit the streets.

Novell’s interoperability pact with Microsoft is evident in the update. SLES 10 SP2, for instance, features the Xen 3.2 virtualization hypervisor with support from Microsoft for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 guests as well as live migration of those guests across physical systems, Novell said.  

Additionally, the SLES 10.2 Enterprise desktop offers enhanced interoperability with Microsoft Windows and Office in the form of local NTFS file system support, enhanced integration with Active directory and an updated OpenOffice.org 2.4 Novell edition.

Novell also integrated improvements to the SUSE Real-Time Edition and a new subscription management tool for SLES, both of which will be delivered within three months.

Meanwhile, market leader Red Hat unveiled an update to its Enterprise Linux that also offers enhanced virtualization, desktop, security, networking, and hardware support. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, for instance, delivers virtualization support for NUMA-based systems, systems with up to 64 CPUs and 512 gigabytes of memory and frequency scaling to reduce power use..On the hardware side, RHEL 5.2 offers enhanced support for x86-64, Itanium, power and IBM System Z, support for Intel’s dynamic acceleration technology and IBM’s Cell Blade systems.Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Desktop includes enhanced support for the suspend/hibernate and resume, Firefox 3 and OpenOffice 2.3.  

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pj_mouse 24th May 2008
Isn't that the result of the NTFS-3G project? I don't think they have any relationship with Microsoft.
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
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and for you OES2 users...
Dave P. 22nd May 2008
Don't install SLES10 SP2 - it breaks OES2. That includes using the ZEN-Updater to update the SLES10-LIBZYPP (that breaks ZMD).

There will be an OES2 SP2 coming out later.

Check out Novell TID:7000387 at http://support.novell.com regarding updating SLES10 on OES2 servers:

"OES2 systems should NOT be updated to SLES10 SP2 at this time!"
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RE: SLES 10.2, RHEL 5.2 Linux upgrades offer better Microsoft, IBM support
TtfnJohn 23rd May 2008
I'm not sure the infamous interoperability agreement that Novell has with Microsoft has anything to do with full read/write support for NTFS in SLES.

Two without such a deal, Mandriva and Ubuntu already do it.

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Or the better AD support.
odubtaig 23rd May 2008
Isn't that a Samba 4 thing? Also, I would have thought that better Windows support in Xen would have been as a result of the Citrix acquisition.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid Novell that is, all they got from this interoperability deal was $308Million and a second-rate Silverlight also-ran. I'm trying to like them, I really am, given that OpenSuSE 10.3 is a slight return to form but they make it so hard.

OK, $308Million ain't so bad.
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Isn't that the result of the NTFS-3G project? I don't think they have any relationship with Microsoft.
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/

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