Binary Drivers; Suse Software Development Kit (Sdk) 10 - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual

7.2 Binary Drivers

Some hardware needs binary-only drivers to function properly. If you have such hard-
ware, refer to the release notes for more information about availability of binary drivers
for your system. To read the release notes, open YaST and select Miscellaneous > Re-
lease Notes.
7.3 SUSE Software Development Kit
SUSE Software Development Kit 10 is an add-on for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. It is
a complete tool kit for application development. In fact, to provide a comprehensive
build system, SUSE Software Development Kit 10 includes all the open source tools
that were used to build the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server product. It provides you as
a developer, independent software vendor (ISV), or independent hardware vendor
(IHV), with all the tools needed to port applications to all the platforms supported by
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
SUSE Software Development Kit also contains integrated development environments
(IDEs), debuggers, code editors, and other related tools. It supports most major program-
ming languages, including C, C++, Java, and most scripting languages. For your con-
venience, SUSE Software Development Kit includes multiple Perl packages that are
not included in SUSE Linux Enterprise.
For detailed information, refer to
susesdk.htm. Use the YaST add-on installer and package manager to install SUSE
Software Development Kit 10.
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To view the list of all packages from the selected software repository, select the
filter Software Repositories and choose the repository to view.
(SDK) 10
http://developer.novell.com/ndk/