[SATLUG] Somewhat OT: SuSE & Novell

[Alex Bartonek]

-- Al Castanoli <afcasta at texas.net> wrote:

> 
> Folks were saying Sun's days were numbered when they
> allowed Internet
> Explorer to run on Solaris 2.5.1, but not only are
> they still around,
> they've open sourced the SunOS kernel and Java.  I'm
> playing around with
> Belenix and KDE on the OpenSolaris 10 kernel, and
> it's pretty
> interesting.  There was a time when Sun producted NT
> 4.0 computers on a
> PCI slot board, too, and even though they've not
> been continuing that
> technology, they have been working closely with
> vmware on future
> releases.
> 
> I still prefer Linux, though, and don't think the
> Novell/MS agreement is
> going to do much to trash SUSE.  I'm running
> OpenSUSE 10.2 on this box,
> and it makes a great vmware host for my Belinux,
> Fedora6, and Kubuntu
> guests.  My kids are booting the Windows guest OS
> less and less because
> they find OpenSUSE a lot easier to use.
> 
> That said, the Debian apt-get utilities still seem
> to run better than
> the rpm tools on SUSE and Fedora, but in a business
> environment, my
> customers prefer the support provided by Novell and
> Red Hat to just
> having an open source community for support.  At
> least Fermilab and CERN
> start their installs with completely open source
> Scientific Linux
> distros.  I find the Selinux tools a lot easier to
> configure than the
> myriad of security hardening tools used in
> Tru64UNIX, Solaris, HP-UX,
> and AIX.

In the days of Solaris 2.5.1 I dont think MS was as
hated as they are now.  I just get tired of MS's crap
and Ballmer's remarks with regards to the Linux
community stealing MS IP.  Its like I was telling you
at work, my 8 year old son knows I will not buy a XBox
or the 360 just because its made by MS.   On the other
hand if he wants to run Windows then he can run it on
his machine.  I give him the choice, he chose Linux
but still wants to play some of his Windows games..so
Win 2k is running in a VMPlayer session.
Open source is the best thing to happen to the
computing community..some of the best software I use
is free but I did buy MainActor for Linux.  I dont
mind paying for Linux software IF I need it just like
the previous title I listed. 

I guess I'm a linux bigot and proud of it.

-Alex

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