The past week has not been particularly quiet. OpenSUSE made an appearance in places and SLED had the H-P announcement to crow about.
OpenSUSE was briefly reviewed here, among other places.
Back to business. Working with Linux is more difficult than the OS that's named after holes in walls. I only made it through because I was determined, and because I know a bit about Linux already. I'm told that Ubuntu, the most user-friendly Linux distro, is as good as that unmentionable OS. I haven't used it so I can't really judge. However, since I have just about everything I need with Susie (I even downloaded and installed codecs so I could watch video), I'm cool. And all set to become a Linux geek.
If you are using AutoYaST and need a way to setup NIC Bonding, then you can just follow the steps outlined here. The setup in this text is a generic setup and should work with most every hardware.
Coolo talked about management tools as well. He claims that OpenSUSE 11.0 package installation is over 7 times faster in some cases.
We implemented some very interesting features for openSUSE 11.0 to make the installation easier and faster:
* giving it a green face * making the configuration automatic * switching from bzip to lzma for rpm payload * put images of default patterns on the DVDs * move online update to the desktop applets * improved package management speed
The Linux Driver Project (LDP) is alive and well, with over 300 developers wanting to participate, many drivers already written and accepted into the Linux kernel tree, and many more being currently developed. The main problem is a lack of projects. It turns out that there really isn't much hardware that Linux doesn't already support. Almost all new hardware produced is coming with a Linux driver already written by the company, or by the community with help from the company
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I'd first like to thank my employer, Novell, for giving me the opportunity to work on this project full time. Their acceptance and support for the LDP is amazing and has been what has allowed it to survive and produce such great results already in a short amount of time.
CNR.com Adds Access to Web Software Applications
Linspire, Inc., developer of CNR.com (http://www.cnr.com), an easy-to-use, one-click digital software delivery service for desktop Linux software, today announced the immediate availability of web-based software applications at CNR.com. As usage trends show an increasing demand for web-based applications in daily connected lives, CNR.com provides a single marketplace for users to easily find and select software titles from over 4,000 web-based software products.