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By: Drew

February 25, 2016 2:15 pm

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YES Search: The way to all information…well, about certified hardware anyway

Where can you find the certification bulletins for more than 47,200 servers, workstations and other hardware components? How can you determine whether your company’s specific hardware is YES Certified with the latest SUSE Linux Enterprise release? Where can you find the specific hardware configuration for the certified server you are planning to buy […]

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By: Drew

August 24, 2015 7:56 am

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New processor(s) before the next SUSE Linux Enterprise Service Pack – YES to the rescue!

New x86 server processor technology is currently released on roughly a 12-to-15 month schedule. That means that approximately every 18 months there is a major x86-architecture update available from server vendors. Variants of these major processor updates, with different feature sets and/or speeds, are also released in-between the 12-to-15 month release cycle. Desktop and laptop […]

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By: Drew

July 7, 2014 9:47 am

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Even in a commodity hardware world certification is crucial

Is hardware certification important in the world of evolving “commodity” servers and desktops?  Should you care if your SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server or SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop installation is on SUSE YES Certified hardware? The correct answers are YES and definitely YES! Long History of Hardware Cert The YES Certification program has been […]

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By: William Vera

September 4, 2013 9:37 am

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Compiling the Linux Kernel, the SUSE way

Today Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux Kernel 3.11 "Linux for Workgroups" (is not it funny?). Let's get straight to the point: How to compile the kernel manually, SUSE style!. For this example, I'll use the new kernel 3.11 (obviously) on a SLES11 SP3 server. 1. After all we […]

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By: Nathan Barney

May 8, 2012 11:25 pm

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IBM Guest Blog: Behind the Scenes of SUSE's 3.0 Kernel

Guest blog by Dan Frye, VP, Open Systems and Solutions Development at IBM IBM has been a strong supporter of the Linux community and the open source development model for over 13 years and IBM is deeply involved in all phases of bringing Linux to market – from working upstream in the community to help […]

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By: Olaf Kirch

March 23, 2012 8:24 am

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 Proudly Presents: Linux 3.0

From a developer's point of view, changing a version number is nothing to go crazy about. Outside of the occasional significance to a version number, version numbers are typically more or less random strings – window dressing, if you will. The Linux 3.0 kernel does not fall in the window dressing category, which is […]

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By: Ralf Flaxa

February 29, 2012 4:05 am

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SUSE releases hardened 3.0-based kernel to the enterprise

Since the introduction of the first SUSE Linux Enterprise version in 2000 SUSE has always been a leader in turning the ever-growing stream of incredible Open Source innovation into rock solid releases of our SUSE Linux Enterprise product portfolio. We live and actively participate in the open source community  every day, so we know exactly […]

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By: Matthias G. Eckermann

January 22, 2010 12:00 am

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Challenges of a Product Manager in the Open Source World – Part Three

In the first two blogs in this series of three we had discussed, how communities influence a product manager's life; and we looked at the concrete example of the Linux Kernel version for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1. And I wondered: What would you have done? You certainly would not have built your […]

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By: Matthias G. Eckermann

January 21, 2010 10:37 am

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Challenges of a Product Manager in the Open Source World – Part Two

When we discussed, how the interaction of customers, partners, and communities influences the product manager's decisions and his ownership of products, I promised to clarify this by sharing a recent example: For more than a decade the standard graphical environment on Linux and other UNIX(tm)-like systems, the X Window System (X11, X.org), did run […]

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