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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The reason that X is present when you first boot the server is because this is the SLES 9 default. If you don't install the X server, you don't see KDE. YAST also functions quite well in ncurses, since that is how I have to install it most of the time on my test machines. Taking the default setup will leave you with X running, but that also has quite a bit to do with Novell wanting to make sure that you have a way to use iManager to setup some of the eDirectory services on the new server. If you want to install the machine, shut down X, and stick it in a closet, you are more than welcome to use a web browser somewhere else to manage the system.
As far as licensing, you pay for the eDirectory users that you put in the tree. You do pay a fee for the OS itself, but you are paying for the ability to upgrade the OS with fixes through ZENWorks Linux Management. You can install the beta if you want and use it. You just have to pay for the eDirectory users. This might give you a nice starting point:
http://www.novell.com/products/openenterpriseserver/pricing.html