[Novalug] SLE 10 SP1 has arrived

Pete Nuwayser nuwayser at gmail.com
Sun Jul 8 20:04:12 EDT 2007


On 7/8/07, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <JECottrell3 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Kevin Chin wrote:
> > For those using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server/Desktop 10, you might
> > like to know that Service Pack 1 has finally arrived.

> Can we PLEASE not use the term "Service Pack" in relation to Linux?

What's interesting is that SP in a NetWare world generally stands for
Support Pack.  I've looked through a couple of Novell-internal pages
for what SP stands for wrt SUSE, but I only find the acronym.

But I'm curious... what do you have against associating "Service Pack"
with Linux?

Pete

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