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A number of enterprise customers have already signed up for 16,000 of the 70,000 annual SUSE Linux enterprise subscription certificates Microsoft is offering under its recent, controversial deal with Novell. Heading the list of customers taking advantage of those certificates are Deutsche Bank AG, Credit Suisse and AIG Technologies, all of whom have welcomed the interoperability moves between Microsoft and Novell.

Microsoft Hands Out 16,000 SUSE Linux Subscriptions

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Have any of y'all compared RHEL to SLES? We've been running variants of
RedHat for years, but in looking at upgrading our Web server, I thought
it might be time to look at SuSE, too.

Any commentary on the two distros would be appreciated...

James

James P. Callison, MCP+I, MCSE
Network Administrator/Webmaster
The University of Oklahoma Law Center ITS
callison@www.law.ou.edu
The moral of the story is simple but it's true
The stars might lie, but the numbers never do
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter, "I Feel Lucky"

Oracle Trumpets Content Management 'for the Masses'By John PallattoJune 15, 2006 Be the first to comment on this articleREDWOORD SHORES, Calif.—Not content to control half of the relational database market, Oracle on June 14 introduced two enterprise content management products aimed at enabling corporations to move more text documents and other unstructured data into computerized repositories.

Oracle Trumpets Content Management 'for the Masses'

Document management systems seemed to be on many peoples' minds at the CALI conference. Rich McCue mentioned his very successful use of Sharepoint services and also clued me into Alfresco. Both look very interesting.

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CALIoppix v3 has been released. The iso is available at: http://www.teknoids.net/files/calioppix3.iso

There has been a big change on the front of writing to NTFS. Formerly captive NTFS was the program to use, but Knoppix v4 was released with Fuse. Fuse works more consistantly with NTFS. There is a password resetting program available on the CALIoppix CD, if you go to /cdrom/KNOPPIX/passwords there is a text file that explains how to reset any user password.

Thanks, Harold

Harold Bieber

In a move calculated to expand Carrier Grade Linux's (CGL's) developer and user communities, HP has registered Debian's "Sarge" distribution with version 2.02 of the OSDL's CGL specification, and started a Carrier Grade subproject within Debian. Debian-CGL offers an intermediary choice between commercial CGL distributions and "rolling your own," according to the OSDL.HP has long used Debian as the basis for custom Linux OSes delivered to its telecom customers. Alan Meyer, R&D manager for Linux/OSS at HP, explains, "Red Hat and SUSE are our premier partners. If a customer can meet their needs with [these] off-the-shelf distros, great. If not, we start with Sarge, and based on customer RFQs, create a modified version of Linux that we deliver electronically to them."

HP unveils Carrier Grade Debian

Sven Hergenhahn created a live CD based on Knoppix 3.4 that allows you to run Dell OpenManage directly from the CD.

Dell - Dell Linux - Blog

I am trying to figure out if there is an interest in Calioppix v3 for
this years conference. Just let me know if you find it valuable and
would like a v3.

Thanks
Harold

Harold Bieber
Senior Systems Administrator
Emory University School of Law
404-727-7193
harold.bieber@law.emory.edu

How to boot Knoppix 4.0 from a USB Flash Drive - Good step-by-step for putting Knoppix on a USB flash drive from windows and configuring the flash drive to boot into linux.

Assume that you have a mail server running linux and sendmail and using procmail for its local delivery agent.

If you follow this how-to, you can set up an auto-responder system with very little fuss.

One reason to set something like this up would be if you are moving from an email-based help system like "help@law.emory.edu" to a web-based system like "http://help.emory.edu" to enter in help desk requests. This allows you to send back a message to the user suggesting a link to the new system.

A small change from the excellent how-to

If procmail is the default local delivery agent, as I believe it is on RedHat, then you do not need the ".forward" file at all. All you need to create is the .procmailrc recipe.

You may be thinking that this is overkill for such a simple task. However, it's useful for situations where you want to try to assist users by guessing their request type. For example, you might want to add a different stanza for users whom you suspect are trying to order toner. So, you could craft something like:

I need a place to stash bits of information, so I thought I would use Elmer's blog thingy.

Suppose that you need to see who has accessed a phpBB board in the last 30 days. Perhaps you're trying to decide whether this is a service that you want to continue to support. Last access time is stored in unix time format (seconds since the epoch) in a field user_lastvisit. This does the trick:

select username,from_unixtime(user_lastvisit) from phpbb_users 
where date_sub(curdate(),interval 30 day)<=from_unixtime(user_lastvisit)
order by user_lastvisit;

You get back something like this:

See the mysql documentation for more.

Novell opened the LinuxWorld Conference here with the introduction April 3 of the beta program for Mono 1.2, its open-source implementation of the Microsoft .Net Framework designed to help corporate IT and ISV developers migrate existing .NET applications to Linux and build new Linux and cross-platform applications.Novell also announced it is developing a new Linux build service framework and disclosed details about the availability of SUSE Linux 10.1, the newest version of its community Linux distribution.ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT

LinuxWorld: Novell Tunes Linux for .Net, Enterprise Desktops

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Microsoft announced at LinuxWorld on Monday that it is making the enterprise version of its Virtual Server 2005 R2 product available as a free download. Microsoft also plans to offering support for Linux as a Virtual Server guest operating system;

Microsoft 'Frees' Virtual Server; Adds Linux Support

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How To: A Complete Terabyte File Server For About $500 - Great article, with pictures, on how to assemble a generic PC with 1 terabyte of storage for about $500.  IF you have a little play in your budget this is a great learning project which can also provide the benefit of providing you with some handy network storage.

With CosmoPOD, you get the same desktop, whenever, wherever. Your desktop lives online, so its not glued to the computer you happen to be using.

CosmoPOD.com

 
This seems interesting.  Uses the NoMachine client to run a linux desktop from a remote server.  One does wonder about the online casino sponsors.

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