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Fujitsu Bundling SUSE Linux
WillAffleckUW writes "Fujitsu, which already offers Red Hat Linux on its servers, is announcing plans to offer SUSE Linux as well, according to an Infoworld article. Sadly, it's only for servers and services for Intel, not for AMD. Still, good news, in that you can go Red or Blue and still be Linux true!"
"you can go Red or Blue and still be Linux true!"
You'd never believe how much I feel like strangling he who wrote that.
Still, good news, in that you can go Red or Blue and still be Linux true!"
I thought SUSE was green.
No, I don't have anything intelligent to add to the discussion.
To be honest, I'm glad Suse is getting more play lately. It's the most refined (read polished) linux offering I've seen yet. Also, the Yast utility is the best tool for configuring this author has had the priviledge to use.
Sadly, they (Novel) need more multimedia support for various codecs and such. Linux might come around more if people could play movies and music immediately after installation rather than wasting time tracking down all the crap needed to play existing media.
I hope someone from Novel is reading this post...
Actually it could mean in Japanese Fu-jitsu, which if you wrote it in a different set of kanji, could mean "No-Skill"
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My experiences with installing Linux on Fujitsu equipment has been absolute hell recently. The installation instructions for RedHat Linux on a lot of their sevrers force you to use a series of driver disks, then make a bunch of system hacks to get it to install. It takes forever to do, and it's a beeyatch to document it as well, and don't get me started on upgrading the kernel. I can't update it from RHN cause then I'll break all their little modules. So I'm stuck with an old kernel on their hardware. Debian won't go on their BX300 blades... well, it does, but not until you've jigged with the Promise RAID a lot. Also, BSD 5.4 is a PITA to install on a twin CPU RX300. You need to disable one of the CPUs to get it installed, then rebuild the kernel with SMP module.
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This is great to hear. Getting stuck in one distribution is sometimes a bad thing( I know, we all have our favorites).
I started a year and half ago with linux and it made computing fun for me again which I didn't think was possible. (Not since the Tandy 1000 days?)
So, to see a company like this offering more than Redhat (which doesn't impress me a whole lot), gives me some hope for the proliferation of linux and open source in a broader market.
I am a SuSE user, have been for about 3 years now. I used Mandrake before, and Mandrake has a gang of blue. Lemme tell ya, I *hate* green. It has taken me this long to get all the green out of my default settings in SuSE... And I am pretty sure there is some more in there somewhere!
Where the hell did the poster get blue from???
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I will say that real men do not use: Redhat, Fedora, Suse, Mandrake, Gentoo or Debian.
Now go find yourself a real Linux distro using that criteria, and you'll probably stumble on the correct one
Testing this clever hinting, I decided to utilize every slashdot reader's favorite internet hegemon: Google!
Doing a search on "linux distro -Redhat -Fedora -Suse -Mandrake -Gentoo -Debian" yields an interesting result..
Check out this link if you're feeling lucky..
or try this one if you want to see the search results. The results may surprise you!
The other part is, no matter how much you will disagree, I just won't use anything redhat, I had a horrible experiance with it years ago and that sticks. I loved SuSE and Debian, and would use those even if it required extra work (they don't). Having a choice is great for those who have a prefference (or hate) of a specific distro. There will be more websites with distro specific faq's to your hardware, because you know you're not the only one buying that machine with Distro X.
BTW, when they talk about Blue, don't they mean IBM? That is the original Big Blue. :)
I started a year and half ago with linux and it made computing fun for me again which I didn't think was possible. (Not since the Tandy 1000 days?)
I remember the good old days too. My first IBM clone was a 386sx. But that was when Apple ruled, and all IBM had was dos, which made the Apple IIgs look like it was 100 times better. Ahhh... the memories...
386sx.... $2700
cga monitor.... $400
playing strip poker in cga... priceless (for a 14 year old boy).
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
Sun is NOT dropping their Linux support. They are dropping support for their Java Desktop System. When Linux accounts for a large number of their server shipments, I doubt the shareholders would like them dropping support for it. I read somewhere that they ship more Linux servers than they do Solaris servers.
Note : Desktop != Server
HP are to bundle Ubuntu on some of their laptops as a default install, with all the ACPI, Wifi support etc working out of the box.
Some people don't want any of their money going to Microsoft for an OS they don't use.
For example:
"New heights achieved with SAP R/3 high-end computing:
23,000 SD benchmark users; LINUX entering business critical computer environments"
An old press release. Fujitsu Siemens have been offering large SAP installation running on Linux, lately SuSE I bellive.
Redhat is red
SuSE is green
We all love Linux
'cos Microsoft is mean.
Seriously, who thinks SuSE is blue and why?
Bring back Sirius Punk!