Fujitsu Bundling SUSE Linux

WillAffleckUW writes "Fujitsu, which already offers Red Hat Linux on its servers, is announcing plans to offer SUSE Linux as well, according to an Infoworld article. Sadly, it's only for servers and services for Intel, not for AMD. Still, good news, in that you can go Red or Blue and still be Linux true!"

Re:Why not...

[Anonymous Coward]

i hear some people like things ready to use.
getting linux pre-installed for your server could have the bennefit of knowing that it's fully compatible and already (at least to some degree) configured.
I'm not a super l337 linux master, and i know a lot of us /.ers are, but for those that are not: linux can be a bitch to set-up. (it can also be complete cake YMMV) posted AC because I have already modded in this discussion.

RE: Suse Distro

[Sabathius]

To be honest, I'm glad Suse is getting more play lately. It's the most refined (read polished) linux offering I've seen yet. Also, the Yast utility is the best tool for configuring this author has had the priviledge to use.

Sadly, they (Novel) need more multimedia support for various codecs and such. Linux might come around more if people could play movies and music immediately after installation rather than wasting time tracking down all the crap needed to play existing media.

I hope someone from Novel is reading this post...

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Awesome

[Emporerx]

This is great to hear. Getting stuck in one distribution is sometimes a bad thing( I know, we all have our favorites).
I started a year and half ago with linux and it made computing fun for me again which I didn't think was possible. (Not since the Tandy 1000 days?)
So, to see a company like this offering more than Redhat (which doesn't impress me a whole lot), gives me some hope for the proliferation of linux and open source in a broader market.

Re:Linux on Fujitsu

[nettdata]

I have had the EXACT same experiences... especially installing Suse via their remote management board... what a fscking joke.

We bought a crap load of their RX200's, RX300's, and RX600's, and they're a PITA.

That being said, their phone support for Linux was VERY good (at least here in Canada, where you had to call some guy in Toronto). They answered a bunch of questions we had and supplied us with some drivers we needed, but all in all, Linux is a HUGE afterthought for these guys, with Windoze being their main focus.

For that matter, we had a hellish time installing Windows on the boxes.

I'll buy/recommend Fujitsu gear again. I'm very happy with a bunch of IBM blades that we just picked up... can't say enough about xCAT [xcat.org], their Linux cluster management software.

blue?

[ErichTheWebGuy]

I am a SuSE user, have been for about 3 years now. I used Mandrake before, and Mandrake has a gang of blue. Lemme tell ya, I *hate* green. It has taken me this long to get all the green out of my default settings in SuSE... And I am pretty sure there is some more in there somewhere!

Where the hell did the poster get blue from???

Confidence too...

[John Seminal]

If a computer manufacturor sells desktops with various flavors of linux, you know the hardware will have drivers and work with those different distros. It won't be like the old days when you wanted to instal debian but your sound card was not supported. Everything should work, no matter which distro you toss on the machine. And the more open it is, the more people can enhance it. ;)

The other part is, no matter how much you will disagree, I just won't use anything redhat, I had a horrible experiance with it years ago and that sticks. I loved SuSE and Debian, and would use those even if it required extra work (they don't). Having a choice is great for those who have a prefference (or hate) of a specific distro. There will be more websites with distro specific faq's to your hardware, because you know you're not the only one buying that machine with Distro X.

BTW, when they talk about Blue, don't they mean IBM? That is the original Big Blue. :)

I started a year and half ago with linux and it made computing fun for me again which I didn't think was possible. (Not since the Tandy 1000 days?)

I remember the good old days too. My first IBM clone was a 386sx. But that was when Apple ruled, and all IBM had was dos, which made the Apple IIgs look like it was 100 times better. Ahhh... the memories...

386sx.... $2700
cga monitor.... $400
playing strip poker in cga... priceless (for a 14 year old boy).