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Review Of The New Novell Linux Desktop

Posted by timothy on from the well-illustrated dept.

dave writes "Tom Adelstein has published a thorough review of the new Novell Linux Desktop, complete with plenty of notes and screenshots. An excellent review to read for those following the newest desktop Linux offering."

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  1. Re:after reading such a thorough review... by maskedbishounen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Improvements? Try brand name.

    You know how PHBs are, don't you?

    "SuWhaat?! No, we're not putting that on our servers. We're better than that; no up-start, no-name company products for us. We'll use, uhh, Novell!"

    And there you go. That's, more or less, it.

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  2. Re:after reading such a thorough review... by invisik · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hey,

    Visit the Novell home page to get to the download area. You clearly didn't look.

    It looks pretty similar to SUSE Pro 9, minus some of the packages. I have installed the demo and it looks pretty good. True, I'm a big Novell'er from way back, but it looks like a solid corporate distro. It has everything your daily worker would need right out of the box. GNOME is just fine for that type of worker, they aren't getting paid for 'pretty', just to work.

    Sure there's some room for improvement, more specialized installations, package selection on installation.

    But overall it's light and fully functional for your corporate desktop. That is the environment it is meant for, not for the hobbiest or server areas. If you want to tweak or customize with different packages to get 'out of the box' then this distro isn't for you and wasn't meant for you. I hope people get that concept about any of the corporate desktop distros.

    And for $50/year for updates, that seems pretty decent to me!

    -m

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