| A first look at SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 |
Jul. 14, 2006
Novell released the gold master of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 last week to its partners, and DesktopLinux.com columnist and well-worn Linux test pilot Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wasted no time wrapping a couple of his systems around it. What does our resident Linux curmudgeon have to say about it?
"The first thing users of the older NLD (Novell Linux Desktop) will notice is that the new desktop is no stripped down thin-client style Linux desktop like NLD," Vaughan-Nichols writes. "SLED is a full, rip-out-XP desktop replacement system."
"In 2004, then CEO Jack Messman positioned NLD as not being 'about the wholesale replacement of your Windows systems, but rather... about identifying where and when an open-source desktop can be a sensible, cost-effective alternative'," he continues.
"Things have changed..."
Read this first-impressions review of SLED 10 for SJVN's rundown of the good, the great, and the not-quite-right:
A first look at SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
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