Novell & Open Source

[Bradley Dorner]

Novell does offer a free download of SuSE. Try the
following link. They actually have a live eval that
runs on the DVD, or you could install off of an ftp
site, or download an iso image.

http://www.novell.com/products/linuxprofessional/downloads/suse_linux/index.html

Brad
--- Barry Roberts <blr at robertsr.us> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:24:21AM -0700, Lars
> Rasmussen wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:20:04 -0700, Gabriel
> Gunderson <gabe at gundy.org> wrote:
> > > Novell is putting its code where its mouth is. 
> I'm really starting to
> > > like what I see.  For example:
> > > 
> > > Novell Launches Open Source Collaboration Server
> Initiative
> > >
>
http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2005/02/pr05014.html
> > > 
> > > This will fill a big void it the open source
> world.
> > > 
> > > Now if they could only ship a version of SuSE
> that had a current Gnome
> > > desktop and installed stuff in the right
> directories.
> > 
> > & didn't overload the server when you ran the
> yast2 backup module as
> > superuser...
> 
> And a version I could give to friends/newbies.
> 
> I really would like to support the home team, but
> most people I
> convince to try linux aren't ready to buy it, they
> want to try it
> first.  And since Fedora and Debian are ok with
> that, that's what I
> give people.
> 
> But I guess that isn't the market Novell is going
> for.  Seemed to work
> well for RedHat, though.
> 
> Barry Roberts
> 
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