Hello everyone,
Welcome to our latest update newsletter. As we make our way through the hot summer you’d expect the Linux news and announcements to stop, or at least slow down. In fact, we’ve found quite a bit still going on in the Linux world, and perhaps even accelerating! We’ve got more events coming soon, and we’re even holding our first newsletter CONTEST !!
ENJOY!
Regards,
–Novell’s East Open Platform Solutions Team
Linux Specialists
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4247/0/
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Contest
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CONTEST: Most Innovative Management Method
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Soooo… You’re a crack sysadmin. All your machines are running great, the boss thinks you’re a wizard, the users just got you a PS3 for Sysadmin Appreciation Day, and your latest source compile just returned a zero, could it get any better? Oh yeah. Life isn’t complete without impressing all the readers of our newsletter and blog with your prowess. Announcing the first of many contests to come, this one is for the Most Innovative Management Method. In other words, now that you have all those servers in production, how do you manage them without going nuts? Tell us what you do, how you found out about the tools, do you use scripting, GUI apps, the shell, IP over Carrier Pigeon, whatever it is and we’ll pore over the entries.
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners (drawn by our entirely subjective method of reading them and placing them into piles) we’ll announce the winners and award the prizes, all of which are guaranteed not to cause you to have do declare additional income on your taxes, and to sport conspicuous SUSE/Novell logos.
Submissions must be postmarked, er, dated no later than August 31st and we’ll announce the winners and prizes in the following newsletter. Send all submissions to rbrunson[AT]novell[DOT]com
Let the games begin!
RossB
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Articles
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Lenovo to Pre-Load SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
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Lenovo and Novell announced at Linux World an agreement to provide preloaded Linux on Lenovo ThinkPad notebook PCs and to provide support from Lenovo for the operating system.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4977/0/
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Wyse thin clients and SUSE Linux get together
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This is a very exciting developmentâ€| Thin clients are an exciting part of the IT landscape, and interest in Linux on thin-clients has been accelerating. While we have been working with Wyse and have worked to deploy SUSE Linux Enterprise to run on several thin client platforms (including those from Wyse), an announcement was made at Linux World which formally announces Wyse and Novell are collaborating to build the “next generation of Linux-based thin clients.”
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4978/0/
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Will the Online Desktop Concept Work?
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Ross asks us the question… “Is the concept of an Online Desktop the real goal, or would you rather have seamless data synchronization across all platforms and all flavors of operating systems? Then would it really matter what you used?” It’s an interesting question, and one that the Linux platform and community seems eager to address! Check out the blog entry for more info and weigh in on your opinion in the Comments section.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4979/0/
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Getting Linux Introduced at Work
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Linux is cleared by organizations of every size and varying levels of experience. When getting started, you don’t need to focus on replacing established servers with Linux; start with “new workloads” instead. If needed, get some training/self-study, and consider these low-risk ways to give Linux a try… (Also, be sure to submit your ideas and suggestions in the Comments section.)
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4980/0/
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Interview with Novell’s President of Asia Pacific
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Here’s an interesting interview with Novell’s own Maarten Koster, as he was interviewed by ExpressComputerOnline. He talks about where Novell is positioned in the market, the trends he sees developing, and some insight on how popular the themes of “server consolidation” and “virtualization” are these days.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4981/0/
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NASA’s Powerful new Linux “Server”
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With 1024 dual-core Intel Itanium 2 processors, and 4 TB of memory, this SGI Altix system is no slouch… and the folks at NASA have some grand plans for this, the “largest Linux single system image (SSI) in the world.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4982/0/
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OpenOffice.org in Education – A Roundup
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Ross — “Wow, sometimes you think you’re really tied into a product and who’s using it and where, but even I was surprised at the amount of people and institutions deploying, using and enhancing OpenOffice.org. The vast majority are kind enough to take the time to document their experiences so others can take advantage of those findings.” Be sure to check out the comments section for some interesting discussion and ideas, then post your own. It’s good to share!
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4983/0/
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A Thoughtful Look at Virtualization Today
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Jim Klein provides some interesting observations and conclusions in his thought-provoking piece, “Is XEN Ready for the Data Center? Is That the Right Question?â€
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4984/0/
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Novell Hack Week – Innovation and Experimentation
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Novell recently held an internal event in which developers were encouraged to work on projects of interest and passion, rather than the ones they are normally working on. This great article from ARS Technica interviewed some of the developers involved and gives a glimpse of some of the projects they have been working on. My favorite? Joe Shaw’s web interface for Banshee music player.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4985/0/
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Lessons Learned – Converting from MS Office to OpenOffice.org
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From SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, here’s a nice collection of three stories — a city government, a school, and a corporation — each has made the transition from MS Office to OpenOffice.org, and they have some interesting thoughts and advice around what they might have done differently.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4986/0/
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Windows Losing Ground to Linux? Yes.
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Lately Evans Data did a survey that found Microsoft’s Windows platform is losing market and mind share to the Linux platform. In a survey that encompassed over 400 IT people, including managers and developers, almost 13% of developers had fled to Linux and Open Source as their preferred platform for development, down from 74% in 2006 to just over 64% this year.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4987/0/
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Deep Freeze for Linux, only on SLED
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Are you using Faronics Deep Freeze product to prevent users from adding to your IT helpdesk calls? The product “freezes” the OS such that any changes (good or bad) being made to that computer (from say curious users or viruses) can easily be wiped out, and a clean OS state can be easily restored. Used in places such as classrooms, labs, kiosks, or any other location with “at risk” devices. Formerly only available on Windows, the company announced that its Deep Freeze Linux prodterprise Desktop.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4988/0/
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HOWTO: 3 Methods of Updating to SLED or SLES SP1
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There are many great new features in the SP1 release SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and Server. The purpose of this article is to outline the methods available to upgrade from the FCS release of SUSE Linux Enterprise to SP1.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4989/0/
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HOWTO: Configuring a YUP Update Server
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When you register SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server you automatically set nu.novell.com as an update source. Many enterprise customers prefer to setup their own local update servers which mirror nu.novell.com. The utility available to do this is called YUP, Yum Update Proxy.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4990/0/
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Success Story Spotlight
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Faster Biometric Processing
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Faster Biometric Processing is possible, thanks to InteliTrac, Unisys and Novell SUSE. It could result in more “bad guys” being caught, faster.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4991/0/
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Upcoming Events
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Linux Day – Washington DC
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Your chance to get more technical details on SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 continues it’s tour of the Southeast. Register today as space is limited!
AUG 29 — Washington DC/Vienna VA
For details and registration:
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4257/0/
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Just For Fun
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Dilbert, meet open source.
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4992/0/
Virtualization and RISK
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4993/0/
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Did You Know…
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…There’s more open source at Novell than just SUSE Linux?
You certainly are aware that Novell participates in the open source Linux distro, SUSE Linux – but did you know that there are MANY other contributions to the open source community that Novell makes?? While even this CNet blog entry doesn’t cover all of them, it does hit on several of the points that frequently get over-looked. Well worth reading!
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4994/0/
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Also Of Interest…
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Who else pre-loads SLED?
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4995/0/
Red Hat Desktop delayed
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4996/0/
Virtualization: Big Boost for Linux Adoption
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4997/0/
Linux video drivers – proprietary or open source?
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4998/0/
Open Addict Blocks IE Users
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4999/0/
Walmart Goes All OpenOffice on Us…
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/5000/0/
Linux to the people – Maybe?
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/5001/0/
Verizon serves dial-up to Linux
http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/5002/0/
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General Novell Reference Links
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Connection Magazine - http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/969/0/
Novell Success Stories - http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/1228/0/
Novell East Blog - http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/4247/0/
SUSE Linux Enterprise Home - http://novellevents.novell.com/t/2000458/55194816/1173/0/
