No, it's not really, because that means the server hasn't been rebooted in the last 500+ days in order to update the kernel with any security fixes. Think of the exploits!
That's why it's super-cool to run TWO separate DNS servers, so a quick reboot of each one in turn to apply updates won't really be noticed by anyone who had the foresight to define both servers on their client machines.
Bullshit. Evolution is a key component of Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop offering; they aren't going to kill that in favor of simply NOT offering a full-featured mail client... and don't say Thunderbird, either. It doesn't have the Exchange connector that Evolution does.
Friggin trolls...
Hula didn't compete Outlook... that's a client app. (If you want to get technical, Evolution competes with Outlook; doesn't look like they are killing that off.) And if you think Hula competed with Exchange, you're wrong there too. GROUPWISE competes with Exchange, and is alive and well.
Don't get me wrong, I love KDE and personally very much prefer it to Gnome, but it seems to me that with NLD9 and SLED10, the Gnome integration in those two distros seems to be a bit more "focused upon" since they bought up Ximian...
You have the choice of running either Gnome or KDE, but Gnome will probably give your office workers all the warm fuzzies they are used to, and then some.
Fear not, for Novell has a world-class support infrastructure, and they fully support NLD9, SLES9, etc. Their knowledgebase and documentation are second to none.
I'd say SUSE 10. Here is a link to download it, especially a Live-DVD image, so they can either run away screaming, or go all the way and install it to disk (they'll need to get the other ISO's here.)
You have no idea how good it is already. ZENworks for Desktops has been doing this for Windows for years now. And when Novell bought up Ximian, they got Red Carpet. That involved into ZENworks Linux Management, which has a web interface for management, VNC remote control to the managed machines, Linux imaging (ext2 and ext3 currently, ReiserFS support in the works), etc.
The cool thing is that you can demo pretty much anything Novell has to offer for 90 days, so give it all a whirl. The documentation is top notch, as is the knowledgebase and the user communities. If you get stuck, you can certainly find help.
Seriously, you would shit yourself if you saw Novell's lab. I got to tour it since I'm President of a Novell User's Group.
They call it the Super Lab, and it's nothing but rows and rows of computers so that they can stress test apps before they are released. They even have different companies come and rent it out for their own apps.
GroupWise is a piece of cake to setup, has been for a while. I mean, it's not MS Bob or anything, but it's all graphical. If you can't figure it out from the documentation, then you really don't have any business setting it up in the first place. (Not YOU directly, just people in general.)
You're going to want to check out the recently open-sourced Hula. It's based on NetMail's code, and from here on out, where Hula goes, NetMail will follow.
I wouldn't waste a 2nd hot spare in a RAID5 system... A simultaneous disk failure will still bring the whole system down, as there obviously isn't enough time for the array to rebuild on the first hot spare.
Here is the first paragraph:
WALTHAM, Mass.--19 May 2005--Novell today launched a new introductory Linux training course designed for academic environments, giving educational institutions a powerful new tool to promote open source training and students a new option for learning Linux. Unique among Linux vendor offerings, Novell's new course maps directly to one of the most widely recognized vendor-neutral certifications in the Linux market, CompTIA®Linux+, newly updated for 2005.Novell also announced it will donate $1.5 million in SUSE LINUX software and training materials to educational institutions to help promote Linux adoption.
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No, it's not really, because that means the server hasn't been rebooted in the last 500+ days in order to update the kernel with any security fixes. Think of the exploits!
That's why it's super-cool to run TWO separate DNS servers, so a quick reboot of each one in turn to apply updates won't really be noticed by anyone who had the foresight to define both servers on their client machines.
You can totally do all that with Astaro
Bullshit. Evolution is a key component of Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop offering; they aren't going to kill that in favor of simply NOT offering a full-featured mail client... and don't say Thunderbird, either. It doesn't have the Exchange connector that Evolution does.
Friggin trolls... Hula didn't compete Outlook... that's a client app. (If you want to get technical, Evolution competes with Outlook; doesn't look like they are killing that off.) And if you think Hula competed with Exchange, you're wrong there too. GROUPWISE competes with Exchange, and is alive and well.
Nothing... they already did.
Can we please come up with better names than friggin ICEWEASEL!?
Don't get me wrong, I love KDE and personally very much prefer it to Gnome, but it seems to me that with NLD9 and SLED10, the Gnome integration in those two distros seems to be a bit more "focused upon" since they bought up Ximian...
Yup, check out the screenshots.
Right here.
You have the choice of running either Gnome or KDE, but Gnome will probably give your office workers all the warm fuzzies they are used to, and then some.
Fear not, for Novell has a world-class support infrastructure, and they fully support NLD9, SLES9, etc. Their knowledgebase and documentation are second to none.
Get innovative, people -- invent something new and useful that Windows *doesn't* have, and then they will come.
Oh, how about all that nifty Xgl stuff they incorporated into SLED10?
Check this for a brief glimpse of the sweetness.
"They never offered a Linux server OS w/ the Novell name on it."
Feel free to take a look a NOVELL OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER.
"Maybe they're simply dropping the Novell Linux Desktop distro?"
No they're not dropping it, this whole friggin article was about them CHANGING THE NAME of said distro.
I'd say SUSE 10. Here is a link to download it, especially a Live-DVD image, so they can either run away screaming, or go all the way and install it to disk (they'll need to get the other ISO's here.)
Check out dotProject. I just found it the other day, seems quite powerful. Plus it's free. :)
What do you mean, fully released? eDirectory has been running on Linux for like 5 years now...
You have no idea how good it is already. ZENworks for Desktops has been doing this for Windows for years now. And when Novell bought up Ximian, they got Red Carpet. That involved into ZENworks Linux Management, which has a web interface for management, VNC remote control to the managed machines, Linux imaging (ext2 and ext3 currently, ReiserFS support in the works), etc.
The cool thing is that you can demo pretty much anything Novell has to offer for 90 days, so give it all a whirl. The documentation is top notch, as is the knowledgebase and the user communities. If you get stuck, you can certainly find help.
Seriously, you would shit yourself if you saw Novell's lab. I got to tour it since I'm President of a Novell User's Group.
They call it the Super Lab, and it's nothing but rows and rows of computers so that they can stress test apps before they are released. They even have different companies come and rent it out for their own apps.
Per your sig, "Ofcource" should be "Of course"
GroupWise is a piece of cake to setup, has been for a while. I mean, it's not MS Bob or anything, but it's all graphical. If you can't figure it out from the documentation, then you really don't have any business setting it up in the first place. (Not YOU directly, just people in general.)
You're going to want to check out the recently open-sourced Hula. It's based on NetMail's code, and from here on out, where Hula goes, NetMail will follow.
I wouldn't waste a 2nd hot spare in a RAID5 system... A simultaneous disk failure will still bring the whole system down, as there obviously isn't enough time for the array to rebuild on the first hot spare.
Where is SusE/Novell in all this?
Right here:
Novell Drives Linux into Academia with Training and Technology
Here is the first paragraph:
WALTHAM, Mass.--19 May 2005--Novell today launched a new introductory Linux training course designed for academic environments, giving educational institutions a powerful new tool to promote open source training and students a new option for learning Linux. Unique among Linux vendor offerings, Novell's new course maps directly to one of the most widely recognized vendor-neutral certifications in the Linux market, CompTIA®Linux+, newly updated for 2005.Novell also announced it will donate $1.5 million in SUSE LINUX software and training materials to educational institutions to help promote Linux adoption.
Note that SUSE 9.2 recently received the first LSB 2.0 certification...
Have you used the client from GW 6.5? It's been massively overhauled since 5.x and 6.0...
Heh, try every mouse-happy kid and teacher in the whole school district. Now THAT's fun. And also the reason we're getting Deep Freeze. :)