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by areets

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In the latter half of the 1980s, my classroom was equipped with a Netware server and about 12 terminals. In those days, I had to make do with 16 MB RAM, hence as soon as the network had a high load the server died.

Otherwise, the set-up in place was perfect. Yes, Novell has come a long way and with its version 7, today it permits itself to say, ?Linux is an immature operating system?. Does the Linux world believe this? I am no Linux expert, but I can put together a few of its flavours and get all vital network services up and running. Linux might not have Novell?s mature life span but I would say it is robust and it is my preferred desktop for network administration for UNIX back-end environments.

Can Novell use Linux to regain market share? Will Linux only be seen integrated into other OSes rather than ultimately win the OS platform race?

TSP

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by rod pieper

Presumably you are referring to Novell's announcement that it is moving to the use of the Linux Kernal.
Personally I look at this as a good thing, Novell has had a strong product but it has been sucumbing to MS (aka Bill's Software Company). NDS is a strong mechanism but without an adequate user base it doesn't have a chance of survival and further adaptation.
This does not infer that Linux is becoming a captive of Novell but it does seem to infer that it will help greater acceptance.
My $20.00 (inflation and all)...

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