Novell consultant Adrian Malagui explains step-by-step how to apply restrictive policies to Novell Linux Desktop 9, manage Linux users from eDirectory, authenticate through LDAP and store users data and profiles on a central server. See the full PDF article here.
Novell Linux Desktop Policy How-To
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Please “encourage” Adobe to make a better reader for linux, then I’ll be happy to read PDF documents
they are already working on it, the story’s been already posted on osnews!;) Not much to wait b4 we can have the rest of the Adobe suite IMO…
Umm, opened just fine for me in gPDF. Why are you waiting on Adobe?
I suppose I am a bit fussy, LOL
Kghostview does a decent job as well … i rarely use the Motif-isque Acrobat Reader from Adobe. The interface is so archaic that it gives me the creeps to think what the state of Unix/Linux would have been had KDE/GNOME not been around!
Soon will have something really cool 8)
http://dot.kde.org/1097509333/1097513291/ (the screenshots are down atm)
http://tinyurl.com/49ey6
I fully agree.
We only have to look at KDE/GNOME of a couple of years ago to realize how true that is.
anybody knows why Novell has SUSE already, they still need one more distro?
It’s base would be SuSE, with Novell rebrandings. Same thing for what used to be Ximiman Evolution. It’s now Novell Evolution. Still the same thing at heart.
“anybody knows why Novell has SUSE already, they still need one more distro?”
its like fedora and redhat EL or windows xp and 2003. they have different needs
Am I the only one seeing characters overlap in that PDF? For example, page 20, “user’s home client” the possessive s overlaps the h of home… I saw that a few times in the document… Not very professionnal.
Horses for courses, basically. Novell recognise that firstly, there is usually more than one solution to most problems, and secondly, if can provide products for a number of the possible solutions they will sell more boxes. If just one Linux distro. could be the best solution for everyone, why doesn’t everyone use it?
One the things that really made me laugh when Novell bought SUSE and Ximian, was the suggestion that Novell would either stop supporting GNOME or KDE. So long as there are a large number of people prefer one of them, it is in Novell’s best interest to support and market both.
BTW, SUSE isn’t just one distro, there is Professional, Personal, Enterprise Server and Firewall on CD2.
Novell bought SUSE to get them out of the way. Novell has clearly stated that starting their own distro was out of the question as ISVs did not want to certify their software on 3 distros…only 2. This is why open source is better, if I run Debian and I want to run an open source app that only runs on Red Hat and I have access to the source, I recompile it/port it myself (normally it isn’t much work, I can do it in 20 minutes…which is why it has normally already been done) So Novell bought them and are slowly removing SUSE’s brandings and replacing them with their own. Novell has pulled down SUSE’s site and moved the content to their own. In SUSE 9.2, there is more Novell branding than in SUSE 9.1, which was also released by Novell. Plus, they also gained the expertise of SUSE’s staff.
I personally think ISVs should hire on the OpenOffice and Mozilla guys to train them how to make an application run on any Linux. If I download OOo or Mozilla from their webpage (as well as many other applications I am too lazy to mention) it will install and run under ANY distro I have tried to date. Maybe Open Source programmers are just smarter by nature :-P. If someone has any good reasons why please let me know.
Novell is eventually trying to phase out the SuSE brand and have the Novell brand replace it. It’s the concept of acquiring a company, intergrate it, and release 2 different brands until the less significant one fades away.. just to keep profits stable and some users happy.
This is opinion but I am not stupid–I would do this.
They are simply phasing out suse’s branding. This is already clear with Ximian. Ximian Evolution has become Novell Evolution. They have also moved all of their stuff to Novell’s page, shutting down suse.com and ximian.com