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--Joey

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Subject: Novell Linux Users International Newsletter: April 2005
Date: Tuesday April 26 2005 10:41
From: "Novell Linux Users International" <linux_community@novell.com>
To: JOEY@joeykelly.net

Novell Linux Users International Newsletter
April 2005

Introducing Novell Linux Users International

As a recipient of the recent Novell Customer Communities Linux Technical
 Resource Kit, you indicated that you would like to stay informed about
 Novell Linux offers and promotions from the Novell Customer Communities. In
 an effort to provide you current information about Novell Linux offerings,
 we are pleased to introduce you to the Novell Linux Users International
 (LUI) customer community. As part of your involvement with the LUI customer
 community, you will receive a monthly message containing news, technical
 tips, promotions and exclusive offers.

LUI exists to help Linux professionals access the technical, career, and
 training tools and resources needed to succeed with Novell Linux and partner
 solutions. For more information on LUI, please visit www.luinet.org.

Contents

special features

> Novell Market Start Program
> SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3 Shipping
> Novell Linux Small Business Suite Now Available
> ZENworks Linux Management Sneak Peek
> Novell Launches Open Source Collaboration Server Initiative - Hula
> Novell Open Enterprise Server Evaluation
> Web Seminar: Delivering High Performance Web Services with Jboss and Novell

industry articles

> Novell Builds up Linux Muscle - InfoWorld
> Commentary: Novell Walking the Walk of a True Linux Company - NewsForge
> Novell's Next Linux Server, Desktop In The Pipeline - Information Week

technical tips

> Beginner's Guide to Using Novell SUSE LINUX's Build.rpm Utility
> Deploying Open Enterprise Server
> Novell Open Enterprise Server Migration Guide

customer success

> Völcker Informatik AG

ANNOUNCEMENTS

special features

> Novell Market Start Program

Novell Market Start leverages Novell's PartnerNet and Yes certification
 programs to offer open source ISVs access to critical technical information
 and resources necessary to develop their applications for SUSE LINUX
 Enterprise Server. Novell has teamed with IBM to utilize their porting
 centers to help partners who are developing or porting applications to SUSE
 LINUX Enterprise Server. http://www.novell.com/linux/marketstart/

> SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3

SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3 contains over 3,000 open source packages -
 including a complete set of desktop applications, convenient installation
 media, and comprehensive documentation and installation support. More
 advanced users will find tools for setting up a secure home network, running
 a Web server, developing applications, and creating a virtualized
 environment. In addition, SUSE LINUX Professional delivers several important
 new technology previews to the open source community, including Xen
 technology for virtualization, Beagle desktop search and Linphone for voice
 over IP. SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3 continues Novell's tradition of
 delivering the leading open source technologies on the market to end users
 in a manageable, cost effective manner.
 http://www.novell.com/products/linuxprofessional/overview.html

> Novell Linux Small Business Suite Now Available

Novell Linux Small Business Suite is a reliable, secure, suite of products
 that allows small businesses to capitalize on the value of Linux including
 cost savings, flexibility and manageability. It is the only end-to-end,
 server-to-desktop, Linux solution specifically designed for small businesses
 - with support for up to 100 users.
 http://www.novell.com/products/linuxsmallbiz/index.html

> ZENworks Linux Management Sneak Peek

The recently introduced Novell ZENworks 7 Linux Management provides imaging,
 configuration lockdown, remote management, inventory and software management
 for SUSE LINUX and Red Hat. ZENworks 7 Linux Management uses policy-driven
 automation to centrally deploy, manage and maintain Linux resources no
 matter where they reside in the network.
 http://www.novell.com/forms/form.jsp?survey=zen_linux_mgmt_sneakpeek

> Novell Launches Open Source Collaboration Server Initiative - Hula

Novell has announced the formation of Hula, a new community project to create
 an open source collaboration server. The server will provide innovative
 calendar and mail functionality, filling a major void among open source
 offerings. Hula will be based on code taken from Novell's NetMail
 collaboration server product.
 http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2005/02/pr05014.html

> Novell Open Enterprise Server Evaluation

Open Enterprise Server makes it possible to install Novell's advanced
 networking services on either NetWare or SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9.
 Access an evaluation copy of this software here.
 http://www.novell.com/products/openenterpriseserver/eval.html

> Web Seminar: Delivering High Performance Web Services with Jboss and Novell
> (28 April 2005, 1:00 pm EDT)

With the JBoss Application Server and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server from
 Novell, you can run your applications on the leading Java-based application
 server and the most reliable Linux platform. Watch this Web Seminar to see
 how Jboss and Novell work together to deliver fully supported application
 servers for your enterprise.
 http://register.novell.com/login/?action=prelogin&fuse=event&id=14984

industry articles

> Novell Builds up Linux Muscle - InfoWorld

“We are outpacing Microsoft on the desktop. The Linux desktop has been in
 development for less time than Windows, and we are already surpassing them,”
 said Nat Friedman, vice president of desktop and collaboration engineering
 at Novell. http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/28/13NNbrainshare_1.html

> Commentary: Novell Walking the Walk of a True Linux Company - NewsForge

The bottom line for me is that Novell is a brand new kind of Linux company.
 And when I say Linux company, I mean that from top to bottom they are
 committed to Linux. It's more than marketing talk. Novell is walking the
 walk. Novell has strengths, resources, and a global channel presence that
 simply doesn't exist in any other Linux distribution. It is not standing
 outside gazing longingly into the enterprise; it is standing in the center
 of enterprise and bringing Linux into it.
 http://business.newsforge.com/business/05/03/24/0837217.shtml?tid=18

> Novell's Next Linux Server, Desktop In The Pipeline - Information Week

SLES 10, which is expected to move into beta testing in August and ship in
 early 2006, will incorporate commercially supported Xen virtualization,
 consolidated software management, a Common Information Model (CIM) systems
 management API and flexible add-on capabilities to allow ISVs and service
 partners to hook in products and services, Novell product managers said
 during a BrainShare briefing on Tuesday.
 http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159904668&t
id=5979

technical tips

> Beginner's Guide to Using Novell SUSE LINUX's Build.rpm Utility

There are many "How-to's" and tutorials describing how to create RPMs.
 However, creating RPMs in a clean build environment and in a consistent
 reproducible way, requires more effort than should be necessary. Novell SUSE
 LINUX provides a utility called build.rpm that streamlines the RPM creation
 process and ensures configuration and system uniformity. It does this in an
 isolated chroot environment containing only the required packages necessary
 to create your RPM. This tutorial describes how to use the build.rpm utility
 to easily create RPMs for Novell SUSE LINUX.
 http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11793.html

> Deploying Open Enterprise Server

Wondering how to deploy Open Enterprise Server in your environment? If you
 are migrating, upgrading, or starting from scratch, here's a handy site to
 all the information you'll need.
 http://www.novell.com/resourcecenter/ext_clickthrough.jsp?contentId=17961&lo
gType=3

> Novell Open Enterprise Server Migration Guide

This guide will help you determine where to start with Novell Open Enterprise
 Server (OES). The guide outlines the processes for moving key Open
 Enterprise Server networking services from NetWare to SUSE LINUX Enterprise
 Server 9 and for deploying them in your organization for the first time.
 http://www.novell.com/resourcecenter/ext_clickthrough.jsp?contentId=17941&lo
gType=3

customer success

> Völcker Informatik AG

Völcker Informatik AG is a software and services company headquartered in
 Berlin. Völcker built its business providing solutions for Microsoft
 systems, using C++, Visual Basic and .NET to create its ActiveEntry software
 for provisioning and automated IT management. In recent years, many of
 Völcker customers, particularly those in the German government, began
 migrating to Linux. The City of Munich, a longtime client and third largest
 city in Germany, migrated its servers to Linux and needed Völcker to convert
 its ActiveEntry software to Linux. To enter the Linux market, Völcker began
 searching for the right development platform to efficiently port its
 existing applications to Linux. The company selected Mono for its rich set
 of tools and APIs to create software for both Microsoft Windows and Linux
 platforms. http://www.novell.com/success/volcker.html

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-- 
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net
"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous."
 --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL

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