In today's fast-paced retail industry, it's imperative to keep up with the latest evolving hardware.
In a nutshell, the new SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 12 Client is:
- Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
- Supported on 64-bit hardware only
- Providing support for the latest Intel desktop platforms
- Providing an extended lifecycle with minimal changes during the full lifecycle of deployed hardware.
Here is a fresh look at the retail environment and SUSE architecture:

So, for the 64-bit POS clients, the new SLEPOS Image Server 12 component needs to be used to generate 64-bit images. For the 32-bit POS clients, you would continue to use the SLEPOS Image Server 11 (based on SLES 11 SP3 or SP4) to build the 32-bit images.