[H-GEN] Does anyone know about Novell's Linux roadmap?

[Michael Mollard]

What exactly do you need to know.  I administer a school as well, Novell
shop, Linux around the place.
NLD is a tweaked version of Suse Pro (not sure which version it's based
on, 9.3 I believe) that is designed to be deployed by organizations that
prefer to get things done rather than tweaking Linux distros.  It comes
pre-packaged with Novell branded Open Office, and a few other nice
things, and is supported under contract (if you like) by Novell.  As in
all patches etc can be managed for you.  It's much more tested and
standardised as well, at least across an organization.

In fact, listening to the Novell guy at a seminar yesterday, he
mentioned that NLD was open source and you could grab it and run it
whenever.  The $$ is for support (as it should be in the Linux world.)

I have a RH server doing some stuff here, and I'm just waitintg for
time to migrate across to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and OES,
Netware built on either Netware Kernel, or Linux Kernel.

OES looks like the best of both worlds.  Can run on stable Linux
Enterprise built system, with all the management features that Netware
has given me for many years.  Novell have big plans for Suse, from what
I've been hearing.

HTH.


Michael Mollard
Information Systems Administrator
molm at cvxmck.edu.au
Clairvaux MacKillop College
Brisbane Australia.
http://www.cvxmck.edu.au

Ph 07 33474607 (direct) / 07 33498977 
Fax 07 3349 5677


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From: 	Harry Phillips <harry at tux.com.au>
To:	<general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Date: 	26/10/2005 3:28 pm
Subject: 	[H-GEN] Does anyone know about Novell's Linux roadmap?

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I am working at a school and they are running Novell and Redhat Linux
servers
(RH8 I think). They have some sort of corporate licence for Novell and
can
deloy as many Novell servers, users and products as they want.

I noticed that SUSE 10.0 has released recently, does anyone know where
Novell
Linux Desktop fits in?

You can still download NLD9 but it was released ages ago (8/11/2004
according to
Distrowatch). Novell based NLD9 on SUSE and have since purchased them.

Does anyone know what future Novell has for SUSE? NLD? Should we forget
NLD9 and
change the RH servers to SUSE?

I tried reading through the mountains of info on the Novell website but
ended up
more confused not less.

-- 
Regards
Harry


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