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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is a Linux distribution supplied by Novell, targeted at the business market. It is targeted for servers, but can be installed on Desktop computers for testing as well. New versions are released at an interval of 18-24 months. SLES receives much more intense testing than other SUSE Linux products with the intention that only mature, stable versions of the included components will make it through to the released product.
History
SLES has been developed based on SUSE Linux by a small team led by Marcus Kraft and Bernhard Kaindl as principal developer who was supported by Joachim Schröder. It was first released on 31 October 2000 as a version for IBM S/390 machines.
(SuSE: [http://web.archive.org/web/20010605154144/www.suse.de/en/produkte/susesoft/s390/S390release.html "SuSE Linux for S/390 available today" --> In December 2000, the first enterprise client (Telia) was made public.(silicon.com: [http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,11021413,00.htm "Linux mainframe ousts Sun servers at Telia" -->
In April 2001, the first SLES for x86 was released.
SLES version 9 was released in August 2004. Service Pack 3 was released in December 2005. It is supported by the major hardware vendors - IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, Dell, SGI and Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 was released in July 2006(novell.com: [http://www.novell.com/news/press/item.jsp?id=1031&locale=en_US "Novell Delivers Next-Generation Platform for the Open Enterprise" -->, and is also supported by the major hardware vendors. The SLES 10 codebase is the foundation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (formerly Novell Linux Desktop) - Novell's desktop distribution for business use.
Product integration and bundles
SLES is also an important part of Novell Open Enterprise Server, which brings all the networking services that were previously available only on NetWare to the Linux platform.
SLES 10 uses:
* GLibC 2.4.x
* Xen 3.0.2
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