Re: [opensuse] What does Novell Linux Desktop 10 have that I don't?

2006-02-08 Thread Christoph Thiel
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, HG wrote: > On 2/7/06, Peter Flodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I stumbled onto this video of a presentation of a Novell Technical > > Preview of Novell Linux Desktop 10 > [...] > > http://cto.secs.oakland.edu/~castro/NLD10video/MVI_1951_bis.AVI (4Mb) > > And I thought I c

Re: [opensuse] What does Novell Linux Desktop 10 have that I don't?

2006-02-08 Thread HG
Hi! On 2/7/06, Peter Flodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I stumbled onto this video of a presentation of a Novell Technical > Preview of Novell Linux Desktop 10 [...] > http://cto.secs.oakland.edu/~castro/NLD10video/MVI_1951_bis.AVI (4Mb) And I thought I could view a video from Novell by using a

Re: [opensuse] What does Novell Linux Desktop 10 have that I don't?

2006-02-07 Thread Maged Hussein
NLD targets enterprise customer with the following advantages: - Life cycle of the products [5 years] - Time between release X and release X+1 [2 years] where opensuse is [6 months] (Note: this is mandatory for hardware and software vendors to have enough time to certify their products on Linux).

Re: [opensuse] What does Novell Linux Desktop 10 have that I don't?

2006-02-07 Thread Marcus Meissner
> Thank you Christoph. > > To the other responders: you obviously didn't look at the video it is > a demonstration of a user moving windows that are transparent, and > fluid like , ie if you grab the top of a window and move it sideways, > the bottom will drag like it was a piece of cloth. Even a

RE: [opensuse] What does Novell Linux Desktop 10 have that I don't?

2006-02-07 Thread Alain Black
-Original Message- From: Peter Flodin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 1:55 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] What does Novell Linux Desktop 10 have that I don't? On 2/8/06, Christoph Thiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On T

Re: [opensuse] What does Novell Linux Desktop 10 have that I don't?

2006-02-07 Thread Peter Flodin
On 2/8/06, Christoph Thiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Peter Flodin wrote: > > Can someone explain what exactly I am seeing, I assume it is GNOME, > > but my desktop doesn't behave this way :-) , it is very Aqua (the > > Mac). > > I guess you are seeing Xgl in actionn ;) Check

Re: [opensuse] What does Novell Linux Desktop 10 have that I don't?

2006-02-07 Thread David Wright
You are thing of Novell SUSE Linux, this guy is talking about Novell Linux Desktop 10... Two different beasts. Novell Linux Desktop is a corporate solution, it has a more tightly controlled list of available packages, has tools for pushing updates to the desktop from a central source etc. and y

Re: [opensuse] What does Novell Linux Desktop 10 have that I don't?

2006-02-07 Thread Joseph M. Gaffney
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 08:39, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: > You're looking at an enterprise product with the eyes of a home user. > You're thinking what would I get more out of this? > > There is a lot of stuff to get but it's useful for company desktops. None > of it will interest you on your

Re: [opensuse] What does Novell Linux Desktop 10 have that I don't?

2006-02-07 Thread Silviu Marin-Caea
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 15:16, gonzlobo wrote: > As far as I know, the $$ version has something called Novell AppArmor. No I > don't use it (as most probably don't) either. You get a nice bound book > too, but is it worth $50+, probably not. Oh, having the distro on DVD is > kinda cool, but it'

Re: [opensuse] What does Novell Linux Desktop 10 have that I don't?

2006-02-07 Thread XinWei Hu
On 2/7/06, gonzlobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As far as I know, the $$ version has something called Novell AppArmor. No > I AppArmor is a opensource(tm) tech. already, so the FREE version of SUSE Linux will has it too. don't use it (as most probably don't) either. You get a nice bound book

Re: [opensuse] What does Novell Linux Desktop 10 have that I don't?

2006-02-07 Thread gonzlobo
As far as I know, the $$ version has something called Novell AppArmor. No I don't use it (as most probably don't) either. You get a nice bound book too, but is it worth $50+, probably not. Oh, having the distro on DVD is kinda cool, but it'll be obsolete once 10.1 comes out. On 2/7/06, Peter Flodi

Re: [opensuse] What does Novell Linux Desktop 10 have that I don't?

2006-02-07 Thread Christoph Thiel
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Peter Flodin wrote: > I stumbled onto this video of a presentation of a Novell Technical > Preview of Novell Linux Desktop 10 > > Can someone explain what exactly I am seeing, I assume it is GNOME, > but my desktop doesn't behave this way :-) , it is very Aqua (the > Mac). I