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SLED 11: a distro for businesses, not idealists

 
Fruit of Novell's Microsoft marriage delivers Review   SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) is perhaps best known as the distro whose owner Novell, in 2005, signed an extremely unpopular patent-protection deal with Microsoft. From that moment on, Novell was essentially dead to those that prize the free software aspects of Linux.… Whitepaper - The reference guide to data centre automation (link)

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