Linked by Ian Carder on Tue 12th Apr 2005 04:10 UTC
With some free time and some spare equipment lying around, I decided to give Novell's Open Enterprise Server an install. I work in a Netware environment, but given recent trends, I decided to try and drop OES on a fresh SuSE Enterprise install. This isn't a comprehensive review; rather it's just some comments while I was just playing around. It might give people a better idea what OES actually is.
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Hopefully there's an option to not install the xserver, KDE, etc. They could just install yast and xlibs on the server, then you could just do x-forwarding to your desktop and configure it from there graphically.
For the purposes of this review the guy was merely getting an initial install of OES.
This is an Enterprise OS(tm) with the enterprise grade graphical configuration tools that are expected in such an environment and that should always be available. If you want some half-arsed text only environment that you can hack on then you're looking in the wrong place, because what you want will not be supported. However, there should be a headless configuration with remote YaST configuration, but that implies running the services (and the slight risk) to do so, as with any remote admin option.
Besides, in terms of additional services, security and vulnerabilities (especially compared with Windows technology) KDE is not a problem at all.