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By: Jose Betancourt

January 19, 2026 11:58 pm

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Beyond Backups: How SLES Delivers True System Reliability with Btrfs and Snapper

Reframing Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) for the Modern Enterprise In the world of mission-critical IT, we talk a lot about the "five nines" of availability. But availability is just one piece of the puzzle. True enterprise readiness is defined by Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS)—a trifecta that governs whether your systems can […]

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By: rschweikert@suse.com

November 17, 2025 9:07 pm

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SLE 16 And The Public Cloud

On November 4th the SLE 16 family of products (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications) was released and Public Cloud images started rolling out that day. The major product changes such as the switch from wicked to NetworkManager and other changes are captured in the Release Notes and the […]

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By: Sebastian Martinez

October 29, 2025 8:50 am

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What is new in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 (SLES 16.0) in 4th November 2025. As the successor to the highly successful SLES 15 family, SLES 16.0 is a modernized, traditional Linux operating system designed to meet the next generation of IT challenges. This major release focuses […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

September 8, 2025 11:46 am

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By: Sebastian Martinez

June 17, 2025 2:00 pm

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7 – Your Safe Harbor for Decade-Long IT Investments, Available Today!

SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 7 (SP7) family, including the next iteration of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Service Pack 7 (SLES 15 SP7), is available today. This release offers a critical 'safe harbor' for your long-term IT projects. SP7 consolidates the experience, certification, and validation from its seven previous service packs, delivering an […]

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By: Miguel Pérez Colino

February 27, 2025 3:35 pm

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The Evolution of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, 25 years of Enterprise Linux

Since the launch in 2000 of the first SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), or as we referred to it then: “SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390”,  it has been the cornerstone of business critical enterprise-grade Linux distributions. Its reputation for stability, security, performance, and innovation has been well earned. Over the years, SLES […]

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By: James Mason

October 18, 2024 8:00 am

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Updates over IPv6 in the public clouds

SUSE provides an update infrastructure, enabling timely updates for SUSE instances in Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Platform, and Microsoft Azure.  We have recently completed upgrades to this infrastructure to support IPv6. All update servers globally will now respond to both IPv6 and IPv4 requests. Since cloud-regionsrv-client v9.2.0, released way back in […]

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By: Robert Schweikert

September 26, 2024 11:28 am

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Long Term Service Pack Support for PAYG Instances Simplified

Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS) is an add-on product for SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions that affords the extension of support for Service Packs (SPs) for up to 3 years. Until now getting an add-on product such as LTSS and applying it to Pay As You Go (PAYG) instances was only possible with some business […]

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By: Robert Schweikert

July 10, 2024 3:22 pm

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Image Changes in AWS EC2 for IMDS Access

In 2019 AWS EC2 introduced the Instance Metadata Service v2 (IMDSv2) protocol to enhance security when accessing the metadata for an instance in EC2. Since then a lot of effort has been made to move everything that depends on IMDS to use the v2 protocol. The AMI creation process also has a setting to make […]

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