SUSE Documentation
Did you know that SUSE provides free documentation for all of our products to the general public in multiple languages and in multiple formats? Not only that, it is released under the GNU Free Documentation or under a Creative Commons license. As a big fan of the work that the Creative Commons folks do, this makes me proud to work for a company that actually cares about giving back to the community. Not only is our documentation freely available, so are our knowledgebase articles. Unlike other companies, we don’t give just a few lines of the article and then prompt the user to buy our products in order to fix a problem. Also, now that SLE* and OpenSUSE share the same direct codebase, a problem solved in one product can easily be used to fix the other.
There are currently 20 manuals and white papers for SLES 12 SP 2 and 6 for OpenSUSE Leap 42.2. For the Linux newbie, spending $50+ for a paper book on one product at the local bookstore that will be out of date in two years is a huge investment. It makes sense for anyone wanting to get into Linux and Open Source to start with a distribution that makes it easy.
Our Free Documentation for SLE:
Installation and Administration
Deployment Guide Administration Guide Virtualization Guide Storage Administration Guide System Analysis and Tuning Guide Security Guide
Additional Information
AutoYaST Hardening Guide Xen to KVM Migration Guide Docker Quick Start systemd in SUSE® Linux Enterprise 12 - White Paper Virtualization Technologies Networking with Wicked in SUSE® Linux Enterprise 12 - White Paper Virtualization Best Practice Subscription Management Tool (SMT) Introduction to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the Raspberry Pi Data Replication across Geo Clusters via DRBD SUSE Linux Enterprise Server-Support for Intel Server Platforms