[dba-Tech] Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server

Arthur,

I see that the SRP for it is $899 for 16 users. What's the outfit you work for again? Is your company planning to purchase it?

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI


> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Arthur Fuller <artful at rogers.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Date: Fri, Oct-22-2004 12:11 PM
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server
> 
> 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