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Follow UsIf you have gone through the SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 review (Aug 2006, p122), you would have perhaps noticed the great integration of applications which SLED 10 has out of the box. And when we talk about SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10, the same benefits come to surface quite prominently.
But this time the integration is not just about good looks and easier usage. This being a server-class OS, we talk about integrated features such as FailSafe, virtualization, security and robustness of the OS. The OS was reviewed on an IBM e-Series Server having two Xeon processors and 1GB RAM. As always, the installation was based on the YaST installer. During installation, the OS was able to detect all the hardware in the server. It also recognized a Windows file system present on the hard disks and asked whether we wanted to resize the partition for SLES or not.
After our approval, it automatically resized it and created a ReiserFS partition for installation of SLES 10. This is an added feature for a Linux installer. Because traditionally we used some other application such as FIPS (for FAT32), or parted to do this kind of resizing. The feature has indeed reduced one step while doing a dual boot installation of a Linux distro with Windows.