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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IPX is NOT supported in OES. According to all the documentation I've seen for migration of both 4.11 and 5.x servers to OES, the first recommendation is that you migrate all servers in the tree to IP. For 4.11, this requires migrating to in interim 5.x or 6.x version before moving all the way up. I think this has a lot to do with adding Linux into the tree, since IPX solutions on Linux have previously been half-hearted at best. If you are currently running IPX on Novell, and you want to play with OES, look at upgrading your current server to Netware 6.5 first. It plays quite well with IPX in my experience, and it will also allow you to upgrade directly to OES with little to no trouble.