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Novell Returns to the SUSE Name
soren42 writes "It appears that Novell has decided to rename their enterprise desktop line SUSE, once again. According to an announcement at CeBIT, Novell will be releasing the next version of their desktop product under the name SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop - ditching the moniker Novell Linux Desktop. Naming aside, it looks like the features will be there to make it a strong desktop competitor."
http://scr3.golem.de/?d=0603/Novell_Next_Generatio n_Desktop&a=43914
Errrr.... Weve been using the Novell SUSE enterprise desktop where I work for ages. Dunno where this "New Name" came from but they sold it to us awhile ago when we paid for SUSE Desktop and Zenworks... We paid a lot so i hope we didnt get bilked...
While I use Ubuntu on my "home office" computer, I think SuSE is the current front-runner for the home computer desktop OS. I've got SuSE 9.1 on our home computer for the wife and kids to use, it's just a slick package.
Given the choice, it's the first one I would recommend to relatives.
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The subject makes you believe that Novell had dropped the SUSE name and returns to it now. That is not completely acurate. The SUSE (Not SuSE anymore) name was always there as a distro and at no point was there any thought about dropping that name.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is not the same as the SUSE Linux you can download for free. By naming it is does show, again, Novells comitment with Linux.
Oh and just so you are all clear on names: SUSE is the distribution, openSUSE is the comunity. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server are the products they sell for real.
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As someone who remember using Novell Btrieve (B-tree index file library) way back when, the last thing I associate with Novell is quality. This simple library had dozens of new errata every few months.
There's official Novell screenshots (a nice sneak preview) online at http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/preview.htm l.
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SuSE - zu-zuh
Ubuntu - oo-BOON-too
I have Novell Linux 10.0 installed. I ran RedHat from version 6 on to 9. Most of our RedHat servers ended life at version 8 and switched over to Mandrake 10.1o. Aka Mandriva 10.1, aka Madriva 2005?
:)
Novell makes it almost impossible to get the free download of version 10.0, but if you are patient you can get it. Took me about 2 weeks to get the ISOs from their FTP server.
I was looking at Novell's Distro to provide DNS/DHCP. As a desktop, I was rather impressed. What I think is missing from most distro's is a central place to manage the system. Novell/SuSe has YaST which blows away apt-get, RPM, Urpmi, and has all the configuration settings in one well defined application with a constant feel. And unlike Urpmi and many of these tools, it actually works right out of the box. The live update works very well and is very user friendly. It handles Kernel updates and walks you through it.
Novell/SuSe has Ximian Evolution which looks very much like Outlook and has Exchange integration. http://helpdesk.its.uiowa.edu/exchange/ximian.htm
This is one awesome distro. But it comes at a cost. It really is bloated inside of VMWare. It seems to lock up every 5 seconds for half a second. It is not what I am looking for in a DHCP/DNS server.
I almost went with Trustix, but wasn't sure of it's future. BSD seemed a good choice for this, but as everyone knows BSD is dead
We use Zenworks, Netware, eDirectory, and many other tools from Novell. But we are no loyalist. We are moving away from their solutions due to the lack of direction at Novell.
SUSE Desktop 1.0 was renamed Novell Linux Desktop, now being renamed back to SUSE. It was not an incredibly popular product, which is probably why you don't remember it.
"If you have to use Fedora (read: can't afford RedHat Enterprise Linux), you're feeling a second class citizen."
As a Debian-user, I'm surprised people who use all of those distros that have a pro version don't feel this way if they're using the free version - SuSE, Mepis, Mandriva, Xandros, etc. This is part of why I don't use any of those distos. Why pay for a pro edition when I can apt-get anything I want (or compile if you're a Gentoo-user)? Just because the distro is harder to use? Yeah, well, the *nix-beginner ratio of "no problems at all" to "some problems" is about 1:3 in my experience in chat and on message boards with these easy-to-use distros. (I could get into a much lengthier discussion on this subject, but that would be off-topic. More importantly, I need to go use the bathroom.)
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