[unclug] UNC Novell Users Group Meeting Today from 3:30 pm - 5 pm
John W. Sopko Jr.
sopko at cs.unc.edu
Wed Apr 14 10:54:56 EDT 2004
Hey David,
Unfortunately I will not be able to attend today but I am very
interested in the Novell/SuSe Linux. We have been a Red Hat shop for
sometime and are migrating to Red Hat Enterprise. I am open to the Novel
Linux. A few questions that you might ask are:
- What does Novell offer that Red Hat does not, especially in terms
of applications?
- Does Novel plan on distributing Open AFS as a supported application?
Red Hat currently does not and this would help us out immensely.
- We want to get rid of NIS for distributed user passwd/home directory
location. Does Novell come with a "turn key" solution for this, like
ldap etc.
It would be great if some minutes could be posted about the meeting.
Thanks for putting this together.
David B. Rankin wrote:
> All,
>
> The UNC Novell Users Group will meet today, April 14 from 3:30 pm to 5
> pm at the Carolina Population Center (CPC). The CPC is located at 516
> University Square East. I'm certain this will be an exciting UNCNUG
> meeting that you will not want to miss! The UNCNUG is also encouraging
> UNC Linux enthusiasts to attend. The reason this meeting may be relevant
> to the UNC Linux Community is that Novell recently purchased SuSE Linux
> and had integrated it into our existing Novell Academic Licensing
> Agreement (ALA). This makes SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Novell
> Nterprise Linux Services, eDirectory for Linux, iFolder for Linux and
> access to Novell Technical Support incidents for Novell and SuSE
> products available to the UNC Linux Community through the ALA.
>
> Kip Meeboer from Novell's Atlanta office will be available to answer
> questions about Novell, Linux and the role Novell is playing in the Open
> Source Community. For information on that please go to
> http://forge.novell.com/modules/news/
>
> I look forward to seeing you all there.
>
> AGENDA
>
> 1. UNC Academic Licensing Agreement update - Kip Meeboer, Novell Atlanta
> 2. Brainshare 2004 Update - David Rankin, AIS, and Paul Fowler, UNC-P&A
> 3. Novell, SuSE Linux and Ximian Desktop. What does it mean for us? -
> Kip Meeboer, Novell Atlanta
> 4. Question and Answer - NUG/LUG members
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John W. Sopko Jr. University of North Carolina
email: sopko AT cs.unc.edu Computer Science Dept., CB 3175
Phone: 919-962-1844 Sitterson Hall; Room 044
Fax: 919-962-1799 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
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