The real key about the whole novell thing is its not just about the OS its about the services that run ontop of that OS. Linux is a fairly good platform that is becoming much more recognised as a corporate platform. Idealy with a Linux version they should also look at a *BSD port and really start to push into the UNIX market. I would suspect (and from my own experiences working in IT for over 10years) that most of the Novel customer base (big guys) alreaddy have a unix team managing other systems. This brings the TCO down as the staff are often alreaddy there.
I personally in my corporate roll have been stuck with redhat, personally I use freebsd and slackware but the real issue is that with SuSe emerging out of its european bunker the market has reacted well so far.
I work as a systems administrator on several hundred servers worldwide. I have made sure that all of the processor / os version and gcc etc versions are identical on these servers. i then have a separate system for what i call staging (im sure others do also)...
From this I build the source and make packages so that I can easily install the software and manage it on the other servers. The real benefit of packages is that its easily removed and installed.You can always see whats on your system in one go. And being able to md5 all the files on the staging system allows you to run checks on breakins etc more efficiently.
I have recently built up a system based on an opteron processor in a dual processor configuration. I had more problems than i had ever had with other systems initially. However once I upgraded hardware bios's and other things like that it became a good task. Ive since replaced several systems with opterons and all is working well and stable.. note these are servers and have no X.. DB servers and Web / Mail servers. The increased performance is noticable over the last hardware that wasnt that old as well (Dell PE-2650 Dual XEON's 2400mhz etc).
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I have been using slackware as my sole OS since 1996 . Thankfully no longer a floppy distro;) but its still got its basic roots that I like...
IT also just shows the greed that everyone has, piracy in general doesnt cost the community that much and most ISPs are paying / oncharging traffic to thier customers in Australia anyway so userpays.. its not as if every customer is doing its a select minority of average net users that download pirate software/music/videos/movies/etc/etc/etc..
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Getting it to connnect to an exchange callendar thingo would be nice
The real key about the whole novell thing is its not just about the OS its about the services that run ontop of that OS. Linux is a fairly good platform that is becoming much more recognised as a corporate platform. Idealy with a Linux version they should also look at a *BSD port and really start to push into the UNIX market. I would suspect (and from my own experiences working in IT for over 10years) that most of the Novel customer base (big guys) alreaddy have a unix team managing other systems. This brings the TCO down as the staff are often alreaddy there.
I personally in my corporate roll have been stuck with redhat, personally I use freebsd and slackware but the real issue is that with SuSe emerging out of its european bunker the market has reacted well so far.
Good luck suse/novell..
I bet the spammers are grinning.. large email systems connected to large network gear connected to a few of these.. = spamers wet dreams
Its a shame that no matter how good cisco claim to be juniper is still a better product with a better interface... IOS is cr4p on large installations
There have been reports of people dieing from to much redbull or jolt cola.. those two drinks have been banned in some countries because of that ;]
I work as a systems administrator on several hundred servers worldwide. I have made sure that all of the processor / os version and gcc etc versions are identical on these servers. i then have a separate system for what i call staging (im sure others do also)...
From this I build the source and make packages so that I can easily install the software and manage it on the other servers. The real benefit of packages is that its easily removed and installed.You can always see whats on your system in one go. And being able to md5 all the files on the staging system allows you to run checks on breakins etc more efficiently.
I have recently built up a system based on an opteron processor in a dual processor configuration. I had more problems than i had ever had with other systems initially. However once I upgraded hardware bios's and other things like that it became a good task. Ive since replaced several systems with opterons and all is working well and stable.. note these are servers and have no X.. DB servers and Web / Mail servers. The increased performance is noticable over the last hardware that wasnt that old as well (Dell PE-2650 Dual XEON's 2400mhz etc).
I have been using slackware as my sole OS since 1996 . Thankfully no longer a floppy distro ;) but its still got its basic roots that I like...
disc 2 is now online.. may have to update your browsers/ftp clients if it caches file contents.
Ive put the ISO's online at ftp.oranged.to
disk 2 was corrupt so its still on its way but if you want the discs go for it.
IT also just shows the greed that everyone has, piracy in general doesnt cost the community that much and most ISPs are paying / oncharging traffic to thier customers in Australia anyway so userpays.. its not as if every customer is doing its a select minority of average net users that download pirate software/music/videos/movies/etc/etc/etc..