Suse Linux Enterprise 11 - Released

Today I’ve got an email from Ronald W. Hovsepian (President and Chief Executive Officer of Novel) announcing the release of Suse Linux Enterprise 11, back in 2006, Novel and Microsoft signed an agreement, Now Suse Linux Enterprise is the most compatible Linux with Microsoft, actually the email says that they are the only ones that offers full interoperability with Microsoft Windows Desktops and Servers.

They have 3.000+ applications from different providers and partners and also the recomendation of Microsoft and SAP, this version is prepared to be installed on a x86, mainframe, Laptop or Desktop equipment.

Th

e mail continues with the presentation of the different sub-products of Linux Enterprise 11

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is designed to run on servers of high performance, Green TI, and it can run as guest SO in VMware, Xen and Hyper-V

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop comes with 100% interoperability with MS office and Exchange server.

They are also this time presenting two new products

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension

Designed to run on high availability clusters, and give you the possibility to run mission critical applications on Linux

SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension

That lets you run .NET applications on your Linux Environment.

Linux Ubicuity

This Linux version is designed to run from a x86 to a mainframe, and from desktop to laptob and even Netbooks, also run in virtual machines.

Conclusion

I have not tested it myself, it may be good for companies trying to run away from Windows to Linux, yes you are still in Microsoft world because of the Novell and Microsoft agreement, but it will help you migrate to Linux smoothly, the most of the Open Source community did not like that agreement, but if you are in charge of an IT department of your company, this may be an opportunity to migrate to Linux smoothly.

You can download and evaluate SUSE, and get 60 days free updates following this SUSE evaluation link

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New Project: Unity

I’ve been working on a new project the last few days. We’re calling it Unity. What it will be is a new Linux distribution that takes an incremental approach to desktop Linux. It will provide a central core and use the mklivecd scripts that PCLinuxOS uses and it will provide a base from which to build just about any desktop you want out there.

Hopefully, this building block approach will work for us. Currently, we’re operating behind closed doors. Soon though, we’ll have some kind of public face to this thing. When we do, I’ll post follow-up information.

Those of you that follow me on the web know that I recently gave up control of MyPCLinuxOS, the community projects site for PCLinuxOS. I cited personal reasons for giving this control up. One of those personal reasons was to become involved with this new endeavor. I hope to help make this into something great!

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cPanel Announces Exclusive Partner Program

cPanel announced today that a new partner incentive program has been started. The Exclusive Partner program is for cPanel resellers and datacenters that exclusively offer cPanel as their control panel application of choice. Membership in this program will provide several incentives and promotional options to cPanel resellers and partners. Special promotional offers will be made available to exclusive partners in addition to special placement on the cPanel website as well as special listings in the cPanel Forums. cPanel’s Executive Account Manager, Eric Gregory, states “this is a great way for cPanel to strengthen relationships with our partners by providing promotional opportunities and promotional special pricing.”

The cPanel Exclusive Partner Program is new at cPanel and is another way that cPanel puts its customers first. Further information regarding this program can be found by contacting the Customer Service staff at cPanel.

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Genius Look 316 on Slackware

Yesterday, i bought a new web camera while i was going out with my girlfriend. I bought Genius Look 316 series. I saw that in the box, it says that it is supported in Linux 2.6.5 and above. This looks good and so i tested it today. It was detected out of the box, thanks to gspca driver included since Linux kernel 2.6.27. Here’s dmesg’s output:

usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
gspca: probing 0ac8:305b
zc3xx: Sensor Tas5130 (VF0250)
gspca: probe ok
usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0ac8, idProduct=305b
usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 2-1: Product: PC Camera
usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Vimicro Corp.

Next is finding the correct application to make use of it. So far, i have tested Skype, but the result is not what i wanted. It’s awful and i can’t even see my face

I can’t use Cheese as it requires Gnome, so finally i tried to use WxCAM and it is working just fine. There are some dependencies though, but you can find all of them in SlackBuilds repositories.

Slackware is getting even better at hardware detection, thanks to the new kernel 2.6.28.x

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