OpenSUSE Linux Rants

I was at the Novell CoolSolutions booth at Brainshare again, today. “Hey, have you seen the Novell CoolSolutions sites before? Oh, really? What products do you use it for? Oh yeah? Have you taken our survey? If you take it, I’ll give you a T-Shirt. Are you interested?” I cannot possibly count how many times I have said that in the past two days. I did go around to some other booths to get some free stuff. Let’s see, I got a mini Nerf football, a blue mini beach ball, several pins from here and there, and a couple of little mini staplers. I got a cool Magic 8 Ball from IBM, who are collectively the man because of this. For, as you know, Magic 8 Balls can solve any problem you may have.

Last night I was introduced at the Novell Users International presentation. They had us over to the Hilton, fed us some great food, and introduced us. They were discussing how they are working with Novell to create great online communities for Novell’s products. I was there as the Linux representative the CoolSolutions slice of that effort, which was pretty cool. It’s been really great to meet some of the folks who find value in the CoolSolutions sites. We all enjoy editing, writing, and publishing the content for each of the sites. If you take a look at my author page, you’ll see that I do, indeed, have a small obsession with writing about Linux. Yes, I’m having a mental health professional check that out.

Another thing that Novell is unveiling this week at Brainshare is SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. Here’s a little more info on this. I was also interested to see that Novell had announced SUSE Linux 11 for 2008.