Subj : Novell Linux Desktop 9
To   : PistolGrip
From : Belly
Date : Tue Feb 15 2005 10:39 pm

  Re: Novell Linux Desktop 9
  By: PistolGrip to All on Tue Feb 15 2005 07:30 pm

 > Novell sent me a nice little package the other day @ work which includes the
 > new version of SUSE.
 > 
 > Anyone had any experience with it or running it?  I am tempted to install it
 > a spare box to see if it's as good as all their literature claims :)

I have an eval copy, haven't tried it yet. I'll probably install it after my
SEL arrives. I want to see if it can really authenticate to a NetWare server,
either through NDS or LDAP. I dual-boot SuSE 9.1 on my notebook, and it runs
great.

This reminds me... (off on a tangent I go!)

I ran a network benchmark at the office just for giggles a few days ago. The
results were interesting:

SMB writes to three different PCs, 100mbps Ethernet
PC 1: Windows 2000 Pro    - Athlon 1GHz     - 873KB/sec
PC 2: Red Hat 8.0 (SAMBA) - Athlon 750MHz   - 8.9MB.sec
PC 3: NetWare 6 (CIFS)    - AthlonXP 2800+  - 7.4MB/sec

That's no typo. The Win2k box really got less than a meg/second.

All of these boxes have IDE 7200RPM drives. PC #2 was probably the busiest
(with other tasks) during these tests. Go figure.


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   BeLLy


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