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Red Hat on Open Source

by | 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.

ZENworks Imaging updates – forge.novell.com

by | 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.