[dba-Tech] Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server

Hello Arthur,

I am downloading now.

:)

Mark



On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:06:48 -0400, Arthur Fuller <artful at rogers.com> wrote:
> I just installed this on my oldest and trustiest box, and WOW. I've
> installed some previous Suses as well as Mandrake and RedHat, and IMO
> Novell has done its homework on this baby. Lots of stuff that was a
> hassle before is all installed and configured automatically. Samba was
> already installed and configured and once I supplied passwords I could
> get to every other box on the network -- Windows XP boxes, Win2K boxes,
> and 2 other Linux boxes. For some reason Mandrake had trouble with my
> network card, pretty much a standard Ethernet card, but Suse had no
> problem.
> 
> Once it was running I even played some music that was sitting on a
> Windows box. Then I burned a CD from an ISO and then a DVD, no problem!
> No futzing about, just dropped in the media and clicked, dragged and
> dropped and I was away to the races.
> 
> Linux installs get better and better, but I must say this one is the
> best I have seen to date. Not that I've tried every single version of
> every single distro, but this one is a dazzler. Now I just have to
> install a few packages that weren't on the CDs and I'm away to the races!
> 
> Arthur
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