Novell sees lower profit and revenue

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >
> >Exactly.  SuSE seems to be clueless in this regard.
>
> I find that statement rather strange since one of the things that the SLES
> series includes is driver fixes and updates for hardware that may well not
> be in the most current releases.
>
> I've been installing SLES9 on quite modern hardware with SATA hard drives,
> on-board video and NICs, using autoyast configuration and VNC to monitor
> the installations.  The only thing I've had to do on some hardware is to
> figure out what NIC drivers are required since all our installsions are via
> NFS from a local server.

Go ahead and try to run SLES9 (x86) (with or without any service packs) on
a dual Opteron system, and see how far you get.

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