[dba-Tech] Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server

Arthur Fuller artful at rogers.com
Mon Oct 25 21:55:00 CDT 2004


Steven W. Erbach wrote:

>Arthur,
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>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?
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>Steve Erbach
>Neenah, WI
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>>------------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
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>>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, 
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>>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.
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>>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! 
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>>No futzing about, just dropped in the media and clicked, dragged and 
>>dropped and I was away to the races.
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>>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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I'm a consultant for several companies, which I think is newspeak for 
"hooker". I have a copy for my own network and so far that's it. But I 
will be recommending it to all my clients (Johns?) from here on in. As a 
file/print/ftp/web server, I think it's unsurpassed.




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