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Novell Releases OES Public Beta 14

Posted by timothy from the vitamin-infused dept.
IgorMrBean writes "Just before xmas, Novell has released their public beta of Open Enterprise Server. Novell had promise this a couple months ago, and the product seems to work well for beta... Kernel choice for OES : Linux 2.6 kernel - From SuSE Enterprise Server 9, and Netware 6.5 kernel. Also, many improvements for Netware 6.5SP3, including BASH support, PHP5 and more. Download details here (pdf)."
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  • Is there a torrent? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by IO ERROR ( 128968 ) * <error.ioerror@us> on Sunday December 26, 2004 @02:19PM (#11185941) Homepage Journal
    I know this is an old overused joke, but seriously, is there a torrent? I'm getting 2KB/sec off Novell's download servers. No, wait, now I'm getting 0KB/sec.
  • I submitted this on Friday. Ahh well. I'm somewhat surprised there isn't much interest in this product from the slashdot community. It's kind of a hybrid product, but maybe Novell isn't 3l1t3 enough to take notice. Oh well, they are taking care of business anyway...

    -m

    • And to think (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Degrees ( 220395 )
      I used to complain that there wasn't a Novell logo for /. stories. Someone in /. management is chuckling. ;-)

      The comment about a lack of a bittorrent is kind of insightful - I expect that there are people who would just want to install it to see what it does - but they don't really want to sign up with Novell, for fear of getting deluged w/ Marketing calls and material. (My experience is that would not happen, but any time you have to fork over info in exchange for a copy of the code, you are going to crea

      • Agreed, there should be a torrent and other non-Novell mirrors if they desire. I mean, anyone can download it from Novell, why not get it from somewhere else.

        Ahh well, I downloaded it right away (ON FRIDAY) and got 100k/s out of them.. I'm happy. :)

        Hang in there.

        -m
    • Is it only the beta that is open, but the release will be closed i.e. you have to pay for it?
      • Novell offers SUSE in 5 different forms only one of which requires licensing.

        1: SUSE Linux Retail Solution

        2: SUSE Linux Professional

        3: Novell Linux Desktop

        4: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

        5: Open Enterprise Server (OES)

        Items 1 through 4 will continue to be open and available to anyone.

        OES, on the other hand, contains a combination of proprietary and open sourse products. The proprietary products (specifically eDirectory, NetWare, and (I think) ZENworks) must be purchased to use whether or not you want to po

    • I suspect a lot of folks took the week off. :)
  • It is nice to see another big free software release. Hopefully, as larger and larger companies put their weight behind linux, it will be come more and more mainstream. Hopefully, in about five to six years, we will see linux have a majority share in the server market. Maybe, using the collective might of all the linux companies, you may even be able to muscle Microsoft around a little bit. One can dream :)
  • This step proves that SuSE provides a better-founded platform for deployment of large systems. I have preached in favour of SuSE for quite some time and I can finally do networking at greater ease.

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