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Novell kicks out SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

Adam Spiers

KVM tech preview in SLES 11 

Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 17:48 GMT

Although KVM has yet to prove enterprise readiness, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 does include a technical preview of KVM for testing purposes.

vincent himpe

wow 

Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 22:12 GMT

200 dollar for a licence to run applications. And 7000 on mainframe. And here i was think open sores stuff was free.

Luckily a windows oem install licence is only 99$....

[penguin with horns and dollar signs in its eyes icon]

Mac Phreak

@Vincent 

Posted Wednesday 25th March 2009 05:14 GMT

What about the CALS? What about the Service Agreement? Server SBE Is good value for a small company I grant you, but free (Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Fedora etc.) is better. Open Source is just that - source code that is open for anybody to see and change, whoever said it had to be gratis? Why do you Microsofties have such a hard time comprehending this?

Anonymous Coward

Mono 

Posted Wednesday 25th March 2009 11:00 GMT

Stop

"the Mono runtime, which allows applications that are coded in C# and using the .NET Framework to run atop non-Windows platforms."

Err...I think you meant to say:

"the Mono runtime, which allows SOME applications that are coded in C# OR ARE RE-WRITTEN TO USE A GREATLY REDUCED .NET Framework to run atop CERTAIN non-Windows platforms."

I wish the Mono people all the best and I look forward to the day I can demo my stuff on Linux, but you are really over-egging Mono and that will only lead people who have been told "Hey, Mono can run .Net!" being disappointed and slightly annoyed by the hype. That'll be people like me then.

A J Stiles

No mystery here 

Posted Wednesday 25th March 2009 11:00 GMT

Gates Horns

"The Mono Extension is available today, but only for x86, x64, and mainframes. The code is not available on Power or Itanium platforms, which is a bit of a mystery."

Mystery? It probably is full of nasty binary blobs, is all.

The BigYin

@Vincent 

Posted Thursday 26th March 2009 13:54 GMT

Linux

Then you thought wrong. Open Source is, well, OPEN.

Free and Open Source is, well, FREE and also OPEN.

Just because you fail to understand the concept does not mean there is anything wrong with the concept itself.