Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> __/ [ ed ] on Monday 25 September 2006 22:53 \__
>
>> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:30:35 -0500
>> Gordon <gbplinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I tried installing SLED 10 on my Toshiba tecra 9000 laptop that uses
>>> wireless to connect to the LAN. It didn't connect with the wireless
>>> card - I had to connect manually, I had trouble setting up an http
>>> printer, although the printer was listed in the database, it didn't
>>> print. Samba didn't appear to be installed as standard, and it
>>> wouldn't see the workgroup without a lot of work. I had to disable
>>> ipv6 in Firefox on the default Gnome setting before it would connect
>>> to the internet STILL.....they obviously haven't fixed that
>>> STILL......Ready for the Enterprise? I don't think so - (K)Ubuntu and
>>> PCLinuxOS do all that and more right out of the box. Way to go,
>>> Novell.
>>
>> IMO being ready for enterprise is not finding hardware. It's running
>> stable. That's what Linux/BSD, SUS O/S do well.
>>
>> Of course, being ready for the enterprise is such a vague term, it
>> depends totally on what the enterprise does that it's a stupid term. My
>> printer works but yours doesn't therefore it's ready IMO, that's such a
>> useless term.
>>
>> If you have to do things to get something working, is that so bad? At
>> the end of the process you'll be more informed and have a better idea of
>> what the various ehternet/wireless stacks do.
>
> Also remember that you are trying to fit software to hardware that was never
> tested for Linux compatibility. For that reason, purachsing a box with Linux
> pretested and installed would be a wise move. Published today in CRN:
Make up your mind. Only a short time ago you assured people that Linux
supported ** MORE HW ** than Windows. Sheesh. Get a grip man.
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Novell has signed deals with five white-box manufacturers to preload
> | and distribute PCs globally with its SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
> | operating system, said Justin Steinman, Novell's director of marketing
> | for Linux
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Steinman identified one of the PC makers as U.K.-based Transtec but said
> | announcements would be coming soon on the other system builders. At
> | least 10 more white-box vendors, mostly overseas companies, are in talks
> | with Novell, he added.
> `----
>
> http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=193005112
>
> By the way, I bought a machine with SUSE Linux preinstalled. That was over a
> year ago and it cost me just 165 quid inclusing shipping and tax. Can Vista
> or Mac OS X beat that? I very much doubt it.
>
But why would they want to? People will buy them for more quite happily.
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This is a scsi driver, scraes the shit out of me, therefore I tapdanced
and wrote a unix clone around it (C) by linus
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