SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

What do you like best about the product?

We use SLES due to the long support cycles for the major versions, the well-tested software, and the reliability during upgrades. Besides Debian GNU/Linux, 70% of our servers run on SLES, and the servers can be easily administered via Ansible. The contact with customer support takes place in English, which is positive, but in my opinion, it should continue to be in German. So far, there has been no challenge that could not be solved. I would also like to particularly emphasize that SUSE is not rigid in its development, but with the new version 16, it cuts off old habits and removes tools like yast, apparmor, and salt from the standard distribution in favor of their better counterparts. The offer of the SUSE open build service for creating, testing, and publishing software packages is also worth mentioning. It can be used freely, and with it, missing packages can be created by oneself.

What do you dislike about the product?

The partial absence of, in my opinion, important packages like mydumper or hstr. However, it should be mentioned that there is the Open Build Service from SUSE.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

A solid Linux like any other, but very solid and based in Europe.

What do you like best about the product?

It is a robust operating system with excellent performance in critical corporate environments, especially for virtualization, databases, and mission-critical applications. Additionally, the strong integration with management tools and high-level corporate support ensures security, predictability, and ease of maintenance throughout the server lifecycle.

What do you dislike about the product?

Licensing costs, smaller community base, learning curve for the technical team

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The use of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server product solves problems related to stability, security, and standardized server management in corporate environments.

What do you like best about the product?

The ability to integrate the latest package and Kernel updates, but with the certainty that it will be stable. The ability to design the distribution to implement.

What do you dislike about the product?

The cost of support can be excessive if an environment is not properly updated.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is a completely stable distribution with certifications for enterprise solutions, but with the ability to integrate third-party packages without issues.

What do you like best about the product?

As a daily User of SUSE Linux I like the long lifecycle, the stability that comes with the System, the security that SUSE deliver, things like Live-Patching , proactive updates and the very competent Support/Customer Service. The System is easy to use and the impementaion and integration is well documentet and following a standart procedure.

What do you dislike about the product?

I see some gaps in Third-Party Support and some packages are in very old versions.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

SLES makes it easy for us to deal with virtual machines.
We have the possibility to run our whole infrastructure with open Source.

What do you like best about the product?

It's easy to use, with a lot of GUI/CLI configurators under YaST. In standard use cases, it's great.
Stable in standard use.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes other products vendors doesn't support SUSE Linux family.
Documentation in many cases still are not so good like in other Linux distributions vendors, but it's visible, that SUSE work a lot for changing this state.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our SLES installation is working as a stable platform for SAP environment.