Novell today introduced SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9, with significant performance, scalability, manageability and security enhancements designed to handle corporate workgroup and data center requirements with ease. With this release, Novell offers the first enterprise-class Linux server built on the new Linux 2.6 kernel. Novell ZENworks Linux Management further strengthens this offering by adding the change and configuration solution for the enterprise.
Novell’s SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 Announced
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SUSE might be the best Linux distro in the world but I just can’t stand that name and the logo. Couldn’t they rename it to Novell Linux (without any Suse) and put the (rather neutral) Novell logo on it? Hey, I mean Apple sells more because of style.
So Apple sell more, I agree fully…. but someone would hardly choose Linux because of it’s grace.
If a system has few points to win there, that is definitely Linux…
I personally like the SuSE logo much better than the Novell one.
Now that the veil is lifted, I’d like to be the first to say this new Server 9 is a beast, many new and many improved yast modules, great stability, and just for “Max” something have changed and some logos and icons have been modified to me more Novell centric. Can’t say to much, would prefer not to be slapped on the hands by higher ups for NDA problems…
sorry this is out of topic, but I wonder if anyone has got the Novell technical Resource Kit (the some-Gigs free stuffs, there was an article here some weeks ago).
Max, I agree, I’d love to see them rename it from Suse and change the logo. I’d actualy be more inclined to purchase it if it had the Novell name and logo on it rather than Suse.
Guido, I signed up for it but haven’t received anything yet. Hopefully this week
…the manuals.
I remember a long time ago… when i was mantaining a Novell network, of the pain of Novell manuals!
No redundancy at all in them! If you started to look upon a mater, you could end up with 5 or more manuals open in the table with cross references all over them!
(on the other hand… give us the novell reliability! it simple rocked… – the only breakdown was due to hardware malfunction… this in 6 years of maintenance… – Novell 2.x btw)
I loved Netware 3.12. I had a server that was up for 4 1/2 years bfore it came down ( power went out and the UPS malfunctioned and didn’t bring down the server gracefully.) I got my Novell technical Resource Kit about 3 weeks ago, and there is a ton of stuff in it.
I got it – it’s all on DVDs though and I don’t have a DVD-ROM drive
> I’d love to see them rename it from Suse and change the logo.
I know lots of current SUSE customers in Europe who wouldn’t buy this distribution anymore if it would be labeled as “Novell Linux” only.
Redhat still maintains the lead. The company will always be the most popular distro for servers.
REDHAT rules dudes! 🙂
We just got Enterprise Server 8 and I was disappointed to see how old it was. So where can I download 9 from? I went to portal.suse.com and didn’t find it there.
Jeff:
Go to http://www.novell.com/products/linuxenterpriseserver/
and you can download the ISOs images. Have fun 🙂 it really rocks.
Tell us: How does Slack Industry + Enterprise support rule..?
Well, isn’t it a bit too early to put the 2.6 kernel on an enterprise environment ?
I use it on several machines and it rocks, but i would never use it on a critical server (and in fact on the server i really care i’m still using 2.4)
What do you think ?
I guess if Novell is willing to support it, must be ok.
and it`s much faster and uptime is also well linux
> sorry this is out of topic, but I wonder if anyone has got the Novell technical Resource Kit
Yes, I received it after 3-4 weeks.
well, perhaps my chance to get the NTRK is very slim, I live in Singapore.
does this thing barf after 30 days or is it just the support which expires in 30? it might take me more than 30 days to get it up to a point where i can show the boss and have him reply, ‘gee whiz, that’s great, go ahead and buy it’. if only i weren’t so busy…