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I just read a rant about Novell and Suse on /dot. It seems Linux
products are still considered "risky". Most of what I read had something
bad to say about Novell and their products. That would include Netware
etc...
There seem to be three problems.
1. Not enough advertising. ( I agree )
2. No support for the enterprise in Suse.
3. Free Linux distributions offer the same thing.
Number 1 is simple. When was the last time you saw a commercial for
Novel? IBM has a bunch. They even show off the power of Linux.
Numbers 2 is bad. I think this is where Novell is loosing it. As a
network/system engineer there are things I need.
Most of these items are missing from Linux in general. It's not Novell's
fault. However, the comments on /dot point out that Novell has some of
these features in Netware. I'm not a Netware guy so I have no idea. If
it's true they need to add these features to Suse.
I've been using OpenSuse for about 2 weeks now. It works as a desktop OS
but not for the enterprise. If I have to manage more then 8 workstations
I'm sticking with CentOS. The kickstart (auto install) of CentOS is much
better then autoyast.
This brings us to item number 3. commercial Linux distributions VS free
software. Do I pay for Red Hat Linux? No! I use CentOS. I recently found
out that GCI is also using CentOS. GCI could have been a big customer
for Red Hat.
Where does this leave the commercial Linux distributions? Will Novell
and Red Hat make it or will they loose out to FREE software?
As long as CentOS is stable, updated and free I'll be using it.
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