by ezs | Aug 26, 2005 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Linux, Uncategorized
I knew I had this from several people last year – but I refound the article browsing snorps blog.
Matthew Szulik, Red Hat CEO talking to Computing in the UK – http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/analysis/2075934/putting-linux-desktop
Why Red Hat versus Novell-SuSE or Sun JDS on the desktop?
They’re all proprietary except us. They all have proprietary technology inside, not 100 per cent open source software. They continue to lock customers in to limit choice.
If you buy the Sun desktop, you’re going to buy into the proprietary Sun architecture. With SuSE there’s Red Carpet, integrated with other Novell technologies, still proprietary.
As the saying goes:
Matthew Szulik – I hereby request source to the 100% Open Source Red Hat solutions “Red Hat Network Proxy” and “Red Hat Network Satellite”
Here’s waiting.
by ezs | Aug 25, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized, ZENworks
I keep getting asked about updates to the ZENworks Desktop Imaging engine – specifically driver support and the like.
There is a cool project on the Novell forge site – that hosts new drivers, lots of docs and complete ISOs of the environment. It’s here – http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?zfdimgdrv
Point to note – in ZENworks 7 – we moved to a SLES9 based distro for imaging – so driver support is vastly improved.
by ezs | Aug 23, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized, ZENworks
I took some screen shots of ZLM7 in action – mainly a look at the ZENworks Control Center
by ezs | Aug 16, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized
An interesting article here – talking to Bill Hilf about Microsoft researching non-Windows server and desktop products:
Microsoft’s Linux and Open Source Software Lab serves as both a place to examine the threat posed to Microsoft products by open-source offerings and a venue for testing software from Microsoft and others that’s designed to span that divide. The lab is home to hundreds of servers and desktops that run dozens of different types of Linux and Unix.
Hilf has been pretty open about Microsofts investigation of Open Source and non-Windows technologies:
Channel9
Slashdot
by ezs | Aug 16, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized
Interesting post on LinuxWorld that I found on Slashdot.
Bernard Golden made two really telling comments in his column:
Firstly how the show attendee has changed over the last two years:
The crowd at LinuxWorld looked liked mainstream corporate IT workers, in comparison to previous LinuxWorlds, where nose rings and “interesting” hair dominated. A large proportion of the attendees dressed like corporate IT workers. From what I heard, most went to the show to get practical open source information. The conservatively-dressed folks in the commercial vendor booths provided just that.
This is very true. I was at LinuxWorld in August 2003 when Novell announced the acquisition of Ximian – decidedly 75% hacker/geek audience. This year way below 40%.
Second – on the ‘banishment of the .org community’:
The .org pavilion was banished to an upstairs mezzanine. This caused many attendees to miss it. I felt that it sent a message that the .orgs are unimportant. I think the .org pavilion should have been in the middle of the main show floor; but the producers put a large kiosk of PCs there instead.
I think the show producers had a lot of commentary on this during the pre-show and early show hours. Read my earlier post on the swing to recognise small community projects as best of show.
Final note:
I saw a fellow wearing a shirt with a familiar IT vendor logo. He was actually an actor, hired to stand in the booth and introduce the promotional video. The actor looked like a middle-tier product marketing manager: average height, wire frame glasses, reserved manner…a real faux-techie.
I’m sure I know which vendor this was – and it’s not Novell.
by ezs | Aug 15, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized, ZENworks
Well – it was a busy week (hence no blogging).
ZENworks 7 Linux Management was nominated for a ‘Best of Show’ award – this year it looks like all of the judges awarded to small, non-commercial projects. ‘Best of Show’ for Systems Management went to the OpenNMS project – a small, recently revived monitoring project. It looks pretty good.
Kudos still goes to the extended ZENworks team for building a strong and vibrant product. There was a lot of interest from the attendees at the show.
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