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.
by ezs | Aug 7, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized, ZENworks
It’s time for LinuxWorld again.
ZENworks Linux Management has done well in the last year or so – winning a Product Excellence Award for systems management at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, August 2004 and again in Boston, February 2005
The challenge is how ZENworks 7 Linux Management fares this time – we are again shortlisted for an award.
ZENworks 7 Linux Management is a really innovative product – it will be good to see reaction from potential customers at the show.
The Novell engineering teams in Provo, Cambridge and Bangalore really made this a groundbreaking product – adding OS deployment, policy management, inventory and remote control to the already strong software and patch distribution capabilities.
by ezs | Aug 4, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I’m deep in preparation for BrainShare Barcelona right now – it’s just a few weeks away.
I’ll be posting photos and updates from the show.
by ezs | Aug 3, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Deja vu.
Old-style SE training comes round again. Most of the Category Specialists from North America, Latin America and Asia-Pacific are here in Provo this week for training. (EMEA were trained a few weeks ago).
I’ve been in ZENworks training all week – competitive, roadmap, new product – and now ZENworks 7 Linux Management training run by my good friend Doc Hodges.
by ezs | Jul 29, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
A great post from Greg K-H about the Linux Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) work that’s going on:
It was basically a presentation from Kay Sievers showing udev and HAL working in real-time handing a very nasty chain of USB devices containing a bunch of usb-storage and card reader devices on a USB hub. The speed at which all of the devices were discovered, recognized by the kernel, and then properly named in a persistent way was amazing. The card reader also handled removal and insertion of media from it, destroying and creating the proper device nodes properly (thanks to HAL which creates a thread for every removable device, just like other operating systems do to handle devices that can’t detect media changes.)
This will be the next step in Linux gaining acceptance – especially on the desktop and laptop.
I look at my use of Windows and Linux on laptops – I plug in all variety of USB and Firewire devices; Windows tends to do well – recognising old and new iPods, CD/DVD writers, thumb drives, camera memory sticks etc etc. Generally everything works well – only the occasional ‘clunk – please reinsert device’. NLD 9 tends to be a manual hunt for the device, mount, umount and hopefully things work well. It’s a pain and totally unacceptable for the ‘novice’.
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