Hello everyone,
Welcome to our latest update newsletter. More bragging rights for Novell, New partnerships, a chance to win an IT Rock Star, 3 excellent HOW-TO articles, and 430,000 new users of SUSE Linux Enterprise!
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If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. Enjoy!
Regards,
–Novell’s East Open Platform Solutions Team
Linux Specialists
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/1898124/55177502/4247/0/
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Articles
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Novell Linux support better than Red Hat, Oracle
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Novell technical support has recently been recognized by both customers and leading industry groups for its quality, scope, and timeliness. The Association of Support Professionals has just named Novell as a “Best Web Support” winner for 2007, while the Help Desk Institute has honored Novell with its “Team Excellence Award for External Support.” In addition, an independent customer study indicates that Novell support for Linux bests Red Hat and Oracle in overall quality, timeliness, and addressing the needs of mixed-source IT environments. As a result, Novell customers know they can deploy Novell solutions with the confidence they are backed by one of the leading support organizations in the industry.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/1898124/55177502/4460/0/
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Capgemini and Novell Enter a Broad Mixed-Source Partnership
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Novell and Capgemini announced a newly formed partnership which will deliver solutions to enterprise customers using a combo of open source and proprietary software. Capgemini will enhance its open source practice with Novell capabilities along with mixed source applications and tools. The solutions include SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and ZENworks Orchestrator for virtual machine management.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/1898124/55177502/4461/0/
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ZENworks Linux Management wins Best of Interop Award
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ZENworks Linux Management (ZLM) has been awarded the “Best of Interop” Award for the Management, Network Software and Services category at Interop Las Vegas 2007. ZLM is the recommended tool to manage your SUSE Linux environment or your mixed SUSE Linux / Red Hat environment – both servers and desktops.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/1898124/55177502/4462/0/
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Novell Teams with EFF to Reform Software Patents
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Novell and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) [recently] announced they are teaming up to work on reforms to software patents worldwide.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/1898124/55177502/4463/0/
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San Diego Unified School District selects SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
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With more than 130,000 students, San Diego Unified School District has selected SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell as the standard platform for its Always-On Learning Initiative, a one-to-one mobile computing initiative designed to give students access to laptop computers with software tools and resources to help them achieve academic success and prepare them to learn, live and work in the 21st century.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/1898124/55177502/4464/0/
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Win an IT Rock Star For a Day!
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Ever wanted to get a true IT guru to come and spend the day with you to get some guidance and advice? Here’s your chance… Just let Novell know your story and you could win one of the 4 grand prizes. You must enter by June 22, 2007 however, so get moving if you want a chance to win.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/1898124/55177502/4465/0/
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Hard Disk Encryption Support for SLED
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Get links to more info on what SLED can do natively and what commercial offering WinMagic brings to the table with SecureDoc for Linux.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/1898124/55177502/4466/0/
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Configuring SLED 10 for Single Sign-On to AD (and eDir)
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If you’ve ever used SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) you know that you must authenticate to the workstation before you can be presented with a desktop environment. Many customers want to only get prompted to login to the workstation once and then not have to do another authentication to get access to the network – (just like their experience on Windows). Here’s some helpful advice on how to get it configured
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/1898124/55177502/4467/0/
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HOWTO – Creating PDF’s with Free, Open Source and Commercial Apps
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PDF is a ubiquitous file format for documents. Just about every computer has a PDF reader of one kind or another. That’s why creating a PDF and sending the PDF doc instead of the native document format (like a .doc file) is one of the best ways to ensure the recipient sees things exactly like you do. Of course, OpenOffice.org includes the capability to hit a button and create a PDF, but what the other options?
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/1898124/55177502/4468/0/
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HOWTO – Tools for Comparing File Differences
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Often I find myself poring over data files, usually logs or large output from programs or data sets, trying to find any differrences, if they exist. Years ago the method of finding differences in similar files was to get a text editor and scroll them on the screen simultaneously if possible. Not a very accurate method and seriously hard on the eyes. Here are some alternatives to consider…
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/1898124/55177502/4469/0/
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HOWTO – Autoyast: How and why you may need to update your SLE installation environment & source
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Bill offers us a look at (1)how to update a file/s in your SLE10 or SLES 9 installation environment, and (2) how to update your existing SLE10 installation source with new/updated RPMs.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/1898124/55177502/4470/0/
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Success Story Spotlight
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BMW
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It was announced in a recent press release that BMW is using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Xen virtualization in it’s data center – reducing hardware costs and simplifying deployment. Read the press announcement for more details.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/1898124/55177502/4471/0/
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Upcoming Events
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Linux Days for DC and ATL
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Linux Days are finally starting to make their way South of the Mason-Dixon line. Attend these seminars to learn more about SUSE Linux Enterprise and how it can help you build a more open enterprise. Register today as space is limited!
Details for Atlanta GA – June 26
Details for Washington DC – June 29
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Just For Fun
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HOWTO – Use a Bluetooth Phone as a SLED Proximity Badge
Palm Foleo – runs Linux inside
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Did You Know…
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The open source market is projected to grow 26% annually for the next 4 years!!
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/1898124/55177502/4476/0/
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Also Of Interest…
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300,000 More Corporate Users of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server…
OpenOffice.org vs. MS Office vs. GoogleDocs
Two New Market Start Partners – Liferay and Zenoss
Report: Windows Vista, XP Equally Perilous
Xen beats VMware in the race to native 64-bit support
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General Novell Reference Links
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