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  • Nicole Köpp
    Nicole Köpp
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    White-Box PC Makers Pre-Install Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
    Customers around the world can now buy an integrated solution with the market's only enterprise-quality Linux desktop

    WALTHAM, Mass. -- Oct. 25, 2006 -- Novell today announced it has signed agreements with four white-box PC manufacturers who will globally distribute PCs pre-loaded with SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 from Novell(R). European manufacturers ETegro Technologies, MAXDATA and Transtec along with R Cubed Technologies in the United States will sell notebooks and/or desktop computers with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 already installed, giving customers around the world simplified access to a complete desktop computing solution that dramatically reduces costs, improves end-user security and increases workforce productivity.

    "We share a commitment with Novell to give our customers the right options to help them meet their business objectives," said Nathan Rockhold, president of R Cubed Technologies. "Pre-loading SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on our PCs and laptops is a natural move, as the market recognizes the advantages of Linux on the desktop and businesses decide to migrate to those advantages."

    These partnerships come on the heels of Novell's recent announcement with Lenovo regarding the industry's first Linux-based ThinkPad mobile workstations, which will run SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. Additional SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 agreements with major hardware vendors are currently in the works.

    Roger Levy, Novell vice president and general manager of Open Platform Solutions, said, "Market demand for desktop operating system alternatives is really starting to take off, and these new partnerships will help meet that demand. White-box builders sell millions of PCs and are a crucial part of the growing spread of Linux on the desktop. We're very pleased with our new partners, and we're working with more than a dozen others to further expand the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and bring the benefits of desktop Linux to the widest possible market."

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop delivers ease of use and several innovative new features including three-dimensional desktop graphics, integrated search and a fully compatible office productivity suite through the Novell edition of OpenOffice.org 2.0, all at a list price that's a small fraction of the leading proprietary operating system and office suite alternatives. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is suited for complete desktop replacements, retail point of service solutions, thin-client deployments and engineering workstations.

    PCs pre-loaded with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 are now available directly from ETegro Technologies, MAXDATA, R Cubed Technologies and Transtec. For more information, visit http://www.etegro.com, http://www.maxdata.com, http://www.shoprcubed.com and http://www.transtec.co.uk.
    • 26 Oct 2006, 1:59 pm
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    Enrico Weigelt
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    Re: White-Box PC Makers Pre-Install Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
    Nicole Köpp wrote:

    Hallo Nicole,

    Customers around the world can now buy an integrated solution with the market's only enterprise-quality Linux desktop
    Mit solchen vollmundigen Behauptungen sollte man vorsichig sein, besonders bei dieser Codequalität.
    Oder heißt das nichts anderes als "das einzige Linux das wie Windows ist" ?

    Ich hatte mich ja schon über massive Konzeptionsfehler geäußerst, zB. die zirkulären Abhängigkeiten. Das ist die Hölle für jeden Sysop.
    Dann kommt noch hinzu, daß wohl schon zum Pflichtprogramm gehört, von jedem wichtigen Paket eigene Branche zu bauen, damit möglichst nichts mehr zum Upstream paßt. Erinnert mich doch sehr an die Redmonder ;-O


    Von der Übernahme durch Novell hatte ich mir eigentlich mehr erhofft, zB. daß Netware unter GPL freigegeben würde - dann gäbs heute ein paar gute Gründe weniger, auf Windows angewiesen zu sein. Aber war offentsichtlich nicht gewollt.


    Gruß
    • 06 Jun 2007, 5:27 pm