With Open Enterprise Server (OES) as the heart of your network, you can have Linux, Windows, Macintosh, Solaris, Unix or a host of other operating systems on client machines.
I hope that, soon, the company will publish a paper on what it learned while rolling out Linux on the desktop and what it would do differently the next time around.įortunately, you don't have to make a choice of a single desktop environment for your users. The company is close to finishing its project to have Linux on every desktop throughout the organization, and its experience should be very useful to you. Well, Novell would like you to think about it, but it really won't push too hard for you to do that - yet.
But Novell would like you to think about using it for your marketing and sales people, the accountants and everyone else in your organization. Now I'm not expecting that you would have recommended SuSE for your maiden aunt's e-mail, Web browsing and recipe-printing 386 PC. For example, even when I shut the thing down, it insisted on rebooting itself."
As he says: "SuSE has no useful help material, no wizards, and it does some bizarre things that I have no idea how to fix. The rest will just keep looking for "Clippy" - most likely.)įarrell, with a bit of a light touch, determines that there's simply no way SuSE Linux 9.3 could ever be a home user's operating system. You'll appreciate it, because it will reflect the opinion of many of your users should you install the full bore of Novell Linux Desktop on their machines. In it, IT gadfly Nick Farrell documents his attempts to install SuSE Linux 9.3 on his home computer (see editorial links below). I read a fascinating article in The Inquirer (not the one from Florida, the one from the U.K.) last week.