Arthur Fuller
artful at rogers.com
Mon Oct 25 21:55:00 CDT 2004
Steven W. Erbach wrote: >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 >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >dba-Tech mailing list >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > 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.