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Novell Makes More Open Source Moves

cbnet2004 writes "In what can be considered a win for Linux, Novell has announced NetWare will cease to exist as a standalone product by the end of the year. However, the CEO says: 'We are still committed to it and it is not going away. Our new Open Enterprise Server offering will have two components to it: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server and NetWare. NetWare is here for a long time to come.'" Read on for more bits from Novell's BrainShare conference, including a planned company-wide move to Linux.

Roger Foss writes "Novell has announced it will release its cross platform iFolder file synchronization software as open source. This is pretty cool: far more transparent and easier to use than Unison or some of those friendly Rsync variants. iFolder does multi-master delta synchronization and is user friendly. The source software will be available at Novell's own Forge site and release under the GPL. This sure beats Novell's earlier open source efforts, when they released their proprietary IPX protocol stuff years ago. For those who want to try it, there's a live demo site that I doubt would withstand slashdotting."

Finally, mj01nir writes "According to Miguel de Icaza's web log, Chris Stone just announced that Novell will be moving the whole company to OpenOffice by the end of the year, and to Linux on the desktop a year after.

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  1. So... Novell confirms it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. FP by raisinbran · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. You fail it!! To say the least! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. Re:Novell:Mormons::The Enquirer:Scientologists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Novell:Mormons::TheEnquirer:Scientologists:FreeMas ons:Illuminati

  6. Why is it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why is it that about half an hour after I eat at McDonald's, I produce a big smelly poo?

    It's physically impossible for the McD's food to move through the stomach and intesines in that time. Is there something special about the food that gets my intestines all excited and ready to move shit along?

    1. Re:Why is it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's because the food IS shit. Quite literally. So you have the shit going through your shit-producing organs, thus increasing its shitocity, and eventually you drop a massive dump with double the shit intensity.

      Burger King "food" has a similar effect, although not so severe.

  7. How is this news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How is this news?

    This has nothing to do with either Microsoft or Windows... I don't understand how this is newsworthy at all.

    1. Re:How is this news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      There are still 5 people out there using Novell, elitist jackass.

    2. Re:How is this news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  9. Re:Novell:Mormons::The Enquirer:Scientologists by chunkwhite86 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Novell:Mormons::TheEnquirer:Scientologists:FreeMas ons:Illuminati

    I don't really know what this comment is supposed to mean, but I saw "scientologists" in there. FYI- Scientology is a made up phony religon. It was started in the 1950's by a sci-fi author. It costs tens of thousands of dollars to "advance" through the levels of scientology, only to find out at the end that it is about extra-terestrial worship. what kind of wackos worship aliens??

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  12. That's it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The revolution is snowballing and is out of control.

    Microsoft is doomed.

  13. Re:Novell:Mormons::The Enquirer:Scientologists by LBArrettAnderson · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    he was simply being kind enough to tell us another one of the phony religions. it's only different than 1 religion. the correct one (mormons). well, then it's also different from all other christian religions cause they weren't all just "made up"... such as the Catholic church, which was the result of the Apostacy, when everyone lost the truth. Then mormons came around and saved the day.

    Hope that answers your question!

  14. Re:Its One Hell Of A Good Start by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  16. Re:Novell:Mormons::The Enquirer:Scientologists by ConceptJunkie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...and from what I've read of the Mormon mythology, they'd've had spaceships in there too, but no one had come up with the concept yet.

    It's all really just a metaphysical Ponzi scheme.

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  17. Re:Novell:Mormons::The Enquirer:Scientologists by LBArrettAnderson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i'm guessing what you've read was anti-mormon. it's amazing how much nonsense people talk about mormons. once you really understand what they believe it's not 'crazy' at all, but everyone thinks they're crazy because of the propaganda against them.

  18. Re:Novell:Mormons::The Enquirer:Scientologists by LBArrettAnderson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's all really just a metaphysical Ponzi scheme.

    I'm guessing you haven't read much... well, much of anything true... the mormon religion makes the most sense of any christian religion (that's even what my anti-christ european history teacher (Dr. Corbett, used to be a journalist... went everywhere... he knows everything about everything politics/religion/government) says). he says "if you insist on being christian, mormonism is your best bet".

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  20. Re:Novell:Mormons::The Enquirer:Scientologists by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You know, there's probably some truth to that, and my comment was quite flippant. But the fact remains that the whole religion is based on historical events that no non-Mormon historian has ever seen evidence of. This is not true for every other major religion where you can find diverse historical sources for things like events in the Bible, or people like Jesus or Mohammed.

    The only question I have about the Mormon religion is that if it is so enlightened and make so much sense, why is it secret? Why has the Mormon church been compared to the Soviet bureaucracy? If this is based on the word of God, why does it need to be hidden?

    I know exactly why.

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  22. Re:Novell:Mormons::The Enquirer:Scientologists by LBArrettAnderson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    do you understand that those books present false facts and distorted truths? for some reason i doubt you've read the book of mormon... which would probably make the most sense if you want to know anything about mormons...

  23. Re:Novell:Mormons::The Enquirer:Scientologists by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Exactly. Be that as it may, while the Mormons have (some) really good ideas regarding their morals and emphasis on family life, the religion bears only a superficial similarity to Christianity and is not considered as such by the true Christian denominations (who rarely agree on anything). It has all the same terminologies, but the words all mean different things, and ultimately is is based on ideas that were made up by people, much like Scientology.

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  24. Re:Novell:Mormons::The Enquirer:Scientologists by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As endorsed by the Space Pope!

    Me? I'd rather stick to something mainstream like Oprahism or Voodoo.

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  25. Re:Obligatory quote.... by antsquish · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh come on mods, it was meant to be taking the piss out of all the "XYZ is dying" comments lately! Given that I admin a sizeable number of Netware boxen it's hardly on its way out!

  26. Re:Obligatory quote.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, but it was completely unfunny and lame. Try being creative, original or witty at some point in your life. If you can.