shutup. actually, i learned something really cool. not sure if everyone has heard of the SuSE Studio project? http://susestudio.com/
It lets you build ISOs or images for USB stick or VMWare/Xen on the fly. What's really cool though, is that they have a "testdrive" feature. You build the ISO, to include whatever packages you want, and before you download it you can click the "testdrive" button and it will startup the image and you can make changes right then and there. And when you're done, you click "build" and it will make a neat ISO/etc for you. Very cool. Another cool product they have is ZCM, Zenworks Configuration Management. It's been around for a while and it has had its share of problems, but each version gets better and better. The soon to be release ZCM 10-sp3 has a lot of improvements and several new features. But the core of the product is enterprise wide desktop management. You can send patches to single or groups of machines. You can set Group policy settings the same way. You can track software usage, so you can ensure software compliance! It has some audit features. You can build applications packages and deploy them to specific workstations. I don't know of any other product that cover all of these things. Of course, they also offer and enterprise version of linux that can run on PC or mainframe, and they provide support for that product. Businesses don't want to run Gentoo or Debian, they want something they can pick up a phone and call tech support for, so two companies can provide that for linux. and there's more... On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Jarred White <[email protected]> wrote: > How appropriate, since Bendily is currently at Brainshare or Braintrust or > whatever that meeting of dinosaurs is called. > > Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 22, 2010, at 9:38 AM, "Dustin Puryear" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/032010-novell-rejects-takeover.html > > > > So they rejected the buy-out offer. > > > > Novell has some really, really solid products (e.g., Novell IM), but that > didn't save Sun and it won't save Novell. > > > > --- > Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/ > Active Directory Integration : Web & Enterprise Single Sign-On > Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies > > Download our free ebook "Best Practices for Linux and UNIX Servers" > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -- Have Mercy & Say Yeah _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
