UNC Linux Users Group

["John W. Sopko Jr." <sopko AT cs.unc.edu>]

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
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