Dell Teams Up With SUSE

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Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday October 29, 2004 @12:03AM from the dude-you're-getting-a-linux dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Dell's Linux blog points to the news that Dell and SUSE have teamed up to start offering SUSE Enterprise Linux installed directly on Dell servers. Looks like Dell isn't just a Red Hat shop anymore."

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good news by dns_server · 2004-10-29 00:07 · Score: 5, Interesting

things are starting to look good for linux, we now have a veriety of different companys that are starting to support linux. hopefully this will mean drivers will be better supported (atleast for the hardware provided).
1. Re:good news by Scumbumbo · 2004-10-29 02:57 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  Dell's hardware (at least on the server side) has always been well supported in Linux thanks to their work with Red Hat. I'm hoping this latest move makes their management utilities work better with SuSE.
  
  A few months back I mentioned to our Sr. Dell rep that I wished they supported SuSE (preferably by releasing tarballed sources) with their management utilities. The "Red Hat only" afacli RAID management RPM installs and runs great on SuSE, but installing the other management stuff (specifically for the DRAC management) is a pain in the arse. She seemed really interested in my comment and kept asking me questions regarding my experiences with SuSE on Dell. Makes me wonder if she either knew something was coming down the pipe or if she was actually high-level enough at Dell to be one of the instigators of this.
Windows XP? by darkmeridian · 2004-10-29 00:09 · Score: 5, Insightful

I'm sorry, but why does the top of that article say, "Dell recommends Windows XP Professional"?

What kind of mixed messages are they sending there?

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1. Re:Windows XP? by I+confirm+I'm+not+a · 2004-10-29 00:33 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  It's an ad that's always amused me: Dell recommendsWindows XP Professional, but supplies Windows XP Home (unless you choose to "upgrade").
  
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Re:Future partnerships... by treval · 2004-10-29 00:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

It may be just me but I think that Redhat has totally lost the plot since they stopped producing a desktop distribution.

Suse certainly seem to be gaining ground quickly and I think one of the main reasons may be the complete range of products from Suse Personal through to Enterprise and without the restrictive licencing that RH have tried to impose.

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Re:Future partnerships... by treval · 2004-10-29 00:31 · Score: 5, Insightful

You are probably right however the real volume market is on the desktop. The desktop is what drives the user applications and it's user apps sold in bulk that generate major revenues.

Just ask Billy G...

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Bad news for Red Hat... by Thaidog · 2004-10-29 00:33 · Score: 5, Interesting

Now that novell has bought SuSE, major fundage means major comp now for Red Hat. Personally I think SuSE is more user friendly than Red Hat is now... with YAST playing a major role in that. Easy to configure, even for an end user to get a basic server up and running or whatever else. I see this hittin the lowend workstation level big time as well since most of the hardware cerifications Red Hat has SuSE has too (too a point).

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Nonsense by YrWrstNtmr · 2004-10-29 00:47 · Score: 5, Informative

Try ordering a Dimension series without Windows, for instance. Not possible!
3 clicks
Dell|Small Business|Desktops
"Dell Alternative Operating System Desktops" is listed right there with the others. 'N Series' Dimension, Optiplex, or Precision. Either RH or no OS (FreeDOS in the box).
The Dimension N starts at $319