Developer SUSE Working state Current | OS family Unix-like Source model Open source | |
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Initial release August 31, 2000; 16 years ago (2000-08-31) Latest release 12SP1 / December 18, 2015 (2015-12-18) | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is a Linux-based operating system developed by SUSE. It is designed for servers, mainframes, and workstations but can be installed on desktop computers for testing as well. 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 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.
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It is developed from a common code base 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 Josue Mejia and David Areas as principal developer who was supported by Joachim Schröder. It was first released on October 31, 2000 as a version for IBM S/390 mainframe machines. In December 2000, the first enterprise client (Telia) was made public. 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 hardware vendors including IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, Dell, SGI, Lenovo, and Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 was released in July 2006, and is also supported by the major hardware vendors. Service pack 4 was released in April 2011. 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 and included Linux kernel 2.6.27, Oracle Cluster File System Release 2, support for the OpenAIS cluster communication protocol for server and storage clustering, and Mono 2.0. SLES 11 SP1 (released May 2010) rebased the kernel version to 2.6.32. In February 2012, SLES 11 SP2 was released, based on kernel version 3.0.10. SLES 11 SP2 included a Consistent Network Device Naming feature for Dell servers.
IBM's Watson was built on IBM's Power7 systems using SLES.
The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 beta was made available on February 25, 2014, and the final version was released on the 27th of October, 2014. SLES 12 SP1 was released on 18 December 2015. SP1 added Docker, Shibboleth, Network Teaming, and JeOS images.
Version history
Release dates of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server versions.
Hypervisor kernels supported
SLES 10:
SLES 11 SP1:
SLES 11 SP2: