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Novell Releases OES Public Beta

Posted by timothy on from the vitamin-infused dept.

IgorMrBean writes "Just before xmas, Novell has released their public beta of Open Enterprise Server. Novell had promise this a couple months ago, and the product seems to work well for beta... Kernel choice for OES : Linux 2.6 kernel - From SuSE Enterprise Server 9, and Netware 6.5 kernel. Also, many improvements for Netware 6.5SP3, including BASH support, PHP5 and more. Download details here (pdf)."

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  1. Is there a torrent? by IO+ERROR · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know this is an old overused joke, but seriously, is there a torrent? I'm getting 2KB/sec off Novell's download servers. No, wait, now I'm getting 0KB/sec.

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  2. And to think by Degrees · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I used to complain that there wasn't a Novell logo for /. stories. Someone in /. management is chuckling. ;-)

    The comment about a lack of a bittorrent is kind of insightful - I expect that there are people who would just want to install it to see what it does - but they don't really want to sign up with Novell, for fear of getting deluged w/ Marketing calls and material. (My experience is that would not happen, but any time you have to fork over info in exchange for a copy of the code, you are going to create that worry.)

    The flip side of course, is if Novell did provide anonymous access to the code, some of those people would start working on exploits.

    Novell would lose, as their reputation for being pretty clean (security wise) would get sullied. But Novell would win, as they could clean up a bunch of bugs prior to calling it an official product.

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