Re: [PLUG] SLED

["Randy Schmidt" <x@altorg.com>]

Yeah, i watched the demo and I'm downloading the demo. I think I might
dedicate one of my computers to just trying different linux distros
:-P

On 8/8/06, Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net> wrote:
> Walt Frampus wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 23:47 -0400, Randy Schmidt wrote:
> >
> >> Has anybody tried SLED? Any thoughts?
> >>
> >> http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >
> > Haven't tried it but looks interesting. Watched the Demo and am
> > downloading the trial DVD. I have always used suse from version 8.2 on.
> >
> > Walt
> >
>
> It's getting really good reviews:
> SLED 10 Is a Linux Distro Windows Users Can Love
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1999280,00.asp?kc=EWEWEMNL080706EPW5B
>
> There is a link on the above page for the 60 day eval.
>
> I've used SuSE from 7 on.  The encrypted home partition on install is really
> nice for a laptop.   OpenSuSE also works well if you don't mind installing
> flash, mp3 drivers, etc yourself.
>
> Also a nice graphical ssh-add program can prompt you for your ssh
> key passphrase at login.  ( tested in OpenSuSE 10.1 )
> http://en.opensuse.org/Using_ssh-agent_globally_for_X_session
>
>
> Lee Marzke
>
>
>
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