Hi everybody, Novell is offering a free Linux Technical Resource kit to WLUG members (and other LUGs, I'm sure). To get it, you'll need to go to their website and answer a bunch of questions. Here is the information, in case you are interested. If anybody gets one of these, I'd be curious to know what they think of it. ===== "Novell Customer Communities is pleased to offer members of the Worcester Users Group the free Linux Technical Resource Kit. With its acquisition of SuSE and Ximian, Novell has committed itself to the Linux market in a very substantial way. Now you can evaluate for yourself the value that Novell brings to the Linux market and to your business. The Kit contains well over 10 gig of licensed and evaluation software, patches and fixes, and other tools and resources that will give you everything you need to evaluate and get to know the current hot technologies. A partial list of the Kit contents include: - SuSE 9.1 Professional (the very latest from SuSE) - SuSE 8.0 Linux Enterprise Server - Novell Nterprise Linux Services 1.0 - Ximian Desktop2 Eval - GroupWise for Linux 1.0 - Red Carpet 2.02 Eval - And lots more... To order your free kit simply go to http://www.novell.com/community/linux/order.php?sourceid=uswma and follow the instructions. This is a great benefit to introduce you to Linux technology from Novell and to Novell Customer Communities. Act now as supplies are limited." ===== -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:04:29 -0400 Andy Stewart <andystewart@comcast.net> wrote:
Novell is offering a free Linux Technical Resource kit to WLUG members (and other LUGs, I'm sure). To get it, you'll need to go to their website and answer a bunch of questions. Here is the information, in case you are interested. If anybody gets one of these, I'd be curious to know what they think of it.
Sweeet.... I just filled out the questionaire. the final page had this to say: Thank you William ! Your Linux Technical Resource Kit has been successfully received. We will contact you by e-mail as soon as your order ships. Delivery will be made via US Postal Service, first-class mail. If you have any questions on your order, please contact us. Ahhhh... this will be the first time i've played with SuSE since around 1997. :) -- William Smith wsmith@chezsmith.com Fall River, MA "The future is known. It's the past which is always changing." -- Soviet dissident joke
Just a small rant about the questionare for anyone out there creating a web based forms like this. You need to let the person know how you're going to ship whatever you're shipping. Some people can't get postal mail at their street address, but can't get UPS/FEDEX at their PO box. Luckily I correctly guessed my postal address :) Can't wait to see if there's some neato stuff in there. On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:00:55 -0400, Bill Smith <wsmith@chezsmith.com> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:04:29 -0400 Andy Stewart <andystewart@comcast.net> wrote:
Novell is offering a free Linux Technical Resource kit to WLUG members (and other LUGs, I'm sure). To get it, you'll need to go to their website and answer a bunch of questions. Here is the information, in case you are interested. If anybody gets one of these, I'd be curious to know what they think of it.
Sweeet....
I just filled out the questionaire. the final page had this to say:
Thank you William ! Your Linux Technical Resource Kit has been successfully received. We will contact you by e-mail as soon as your order ships. Delivery will be made via US Postal Service, first-class mail. If you have any questions on your order, please contact us.
Ahhhh... this will be the first time i've played with SuSE since around 1997. :)
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William Smith wsmith@chezsmith.com Fall River, MA
"The future is known. It's the past which is always changing." -- Soviet dissident joke
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For a shipping address do: Name Street Address PO Box Number City, State, Zip The post office (is suppose to) read the address for the bottom up, i.e., if USPS is used it goes to the PO box, if a package shipping company is used they have the street address. ---------------------------------------------- Al Reinhart Phone: 508.869.6417 DisCom Systems EMail: Reinhart@DisCom.com www.DisCom.com Marc Hughes wrote:
Just a small rant about the questionare for anyone out there creating a web based forms like this.
You need to let the person know how you're going to ship whatever you're shipping. Some people can't get postal mail at their street address, but can't get UPS/FEDEX at their PO box. Luckily I correctly guessed my postal address :) Can't wait to see if there's some neato stuff in there.
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:00:55 -0400, Bill Smith <wsmith@chezsmith.com> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:04:29 -0400 Andy Stewart <andystewart@comcast.net> wrote:
Novell is offering a free Linux Technical Resource kit to WLUG members (and other LUGs, I'm sure). To get it, you'll need to go to their website and answer a bunch of questions. Here is the information, in case you are interested. If anybody gets one of these, I'd be curious to know what they think of it.
Sweeet....
I just filled out the questionaire. the final page had this to say:
Thank you William ! Your Linux Technical Resource Kit has been successfully received. We will contact you by e-mail as soon as your order ships. Delivery will be made via US Postal Service, first-class mail. If you have any questions on your order, please contact us.
Ahhhh... this will be the first time i've played with SuSE since around 1997. :)
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William Smith wsmith@chezsmith.com Fall River, MA
"The future is known. It's the past which is always changing." -- Soviet dissident joke
noname - 1K noname - 1K Download
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Wow.. I've lived here for nearly a year and never thought of that. I bet it would work. See.. the wlug list solves all sorts of problems. Anyone got a good recipe for chicken pot pie? :) Thanks! -Marc On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:17:34 -0400, Al Reinhart <reinhart@discom.com> wrote:
For a shipping address do: Name Street Address PO Box Number City, State, Zip The post office (is suppose to) read the address for the bottom up, i.e., if USPS is used it goes to the PO box, if a package shipping company is used they have the street address.
---------------------------------------------- Al Reinhart Phone: 508.869.6417 DisCom Systems EMail: Reinhart@DisCom.com www.DisCom.com
Marc Hughes wrote:
Just a small rant about the questionare for anyone out there creating a web based forms like this.
You need to let the person know how you're going to ship whatever you're shipping. Some people can't get postal mail at their street address, but can't get UPS/FEDEX at their PO box. Luckily I correctly guessed my postal address :) Can't wait to see if there's some neato stuff in there.
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:00:55 -0400, Bill Smith <wsmith@chezsmith.com> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:04:29 -0400 Andy Stewart <andystewart@comcast.net> wrote:
Novell is offering a free Linux Technical Resource kit to WLUG members (and other LUGs, I'm sure). To get it, you'll need to go to their website and answer a bunch of questions. Here is the information, in case you are interested. If anybody gets one of these, I'd be curious to know what they think of it.
Sweeet....
I just filled out the questionaire. the final page had this to say:
Thank you William ! Your Linux Technical Resource Kit has been successfully received. We will contact you by e-mail as soon as your order ships. Delivery will be made via US Postal Service, first-class mail. If you have any questions on your order, please contact us.
Ahhhh... this will be the first time i've played with SuSE since around 1997. :)
--
William Smith wsmith@chezsmith.com Fall River, MA
"The future is known. It's the past which is always changing." -- Soviet dissident joke
noname - 1K noname - 1K Download
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:04:29 -0400 Andy Stewart <andystewart@comcast.net> wrote:
... If anybody gets one of these, I'd be curious to know what they think of it.
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:00:55 -0400 Bill Smith <wsmith@chezsmith.com> wrote:
I just filled out the questionaire. the final page had this to say:
Thank you William ! Your Linux Technical Resource Kit has been successfully received. We will contact you by e-mail as soon as your order ships. ...
OKAY! I got THIS in my email box yesterday (Friday, 02 July) [edited to protect... Suffice to say it was addressed from Novell!]: ======================================================== Subject: Novell/SuSE/Ximian Technical Resource Kit Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:23:01 -0600 X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.2 Beta I just wanted to let you know that the free Tech resource kit you have ordered has been shipped and you should be receiving it soon. Brent Sharp Novell Customer Communities ======================================================== Ahhhh... i can hardly wait! :D I figure that because of the holiday, it should get here sometime around Thursday, give or take. I'll let you all know what happens... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com Eliminate the impossible. Whatever remains, however improbable, must be the Truth. -- Sherlock Holmes * TAG! v3.1a *
I got mine in the mail today. Immediately tried to boot up the 9.1 disk on my office machine and couldn't get it to work. Checked the boot settings in the bios a couple of times, booted my hard drive to try to read the damned thing and couldn't even mount it. Finally figured out that it's a DVD. Lemme know what it says - I won't be getting to it this week. Greg Bill Smith wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:04:29 -0400 Andy Stewart <andystewart@comcast.net> wrote:
... If anybody gets one of these, I'd be curious to know what they think of it.
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:00:55 -0400 Bill Smith <wsmith@chezsmith.com> wrote:
I just filled out the questionaire. the final page had this to say:
Thank you William ! Your Linux Technical Resource Kit has been successfully received. We will contact you by e-mail as soon as your order ships. ...
OKAY!
I got THIS in my email box yesterday (Friday, 02 July) [edited to protect... Suffice to say it was addressed from Novell!]:
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Subject: Novell/SuSE/Ximian Technical Resource Kit Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:23:01 -0600 X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.2 Beta
I just wanted to let you know that the free Tech resource kit you have ordered has been shipped and you should be receiving it soon.
Brent Sharp Novell Customer Communities
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Ahhhh... i can hardly wait! :D
I figure that because of the holiday, it should get here sometime around Thursday, give or take. I'll let you all know what happens...
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com
Eliminate the impossible. Whatever remains, however improbable, must be the Truth. -- Sherlock Holmes * TAG! v3.1a *
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On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 01:58:07 -0400 Gregory Avedissian <gma2004@verizon.net> wrote:
I got mine in the mail today. Immediately tried to boot up the 9.1 disk on my office machine and couldn't get it to work. Checked the boot settings in the bios a couple of times, booted my hard drive to try to read the damned thing and couldn't even mount it. Finally figured out that it's a DVD. Lemme know what it says - I won't be getting to it this week.
Okay... I don't have a spare machine at this exact moment to install anything on (but this will change VERY soon... ;) ), but I poked around. There are three DVDs in a tri-fold paper-board carrying case. DVD 1A says it has the following (screen printed on the disc): -- SUSE(r) LINUX Enterprise Server 8 -- Nterprise Linux Services 1.0 -- GroupWise 6.5.1 -- Red Carpet Enterprise Server 2.02 -- ConsoleOne -- Linux Resources DVD 1B says it's got: -- SUSE LINUX Professional 8.2 -- Ximian Desktop 2 DVD 1C says it has: -- SUSE LINUX Professional 9.1 The README file on disc 1A specifically states that Ximian Desktop 2 needs to have SUSE Professional 8.2 installed, NOT 9.1, so that's why 8.2 is there. Disc 1C is bootable, assuming that your system is rigged to deal with that. ;) Other than that, each DVD has .iso files, which the user would burn to CDs (or mount locally, depending on what you're out to accomplish). I think I'll try to "sacrifice" my FC1 system to play with this... :D Although the package said that the contents were time-sensitive material (and each disc says that it is an Evaluation Software DVD-ROM), there was no indication in the README file of when anything (like the licenses) would expire. This will have to be explored further. Thanks, Andy, for bringing this to our attention! Best, -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com There are 10 kinds of people in the universe: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. * TAG! v3.1a *
Update: Micro Center had a deal I couldn't refuse on a dvd drive, so I took a spare hard drive and installed SuSE 9.1 yesterday. The first install had a bunch of errors and wouldn't boot. I saw a list of programs that reported errors, and it was too large to even bother with. I got prompted to start the installation process and went through it a second time. I guess it didn't like my vid card. Unlike 8.2, this one doesn't come with the xfree 3.x environment that lets me run the 3.x server for my card with xfree 4.3. The entire installation process was done in console version of yast, rather than yast2. This surprised me, since earlier versions of SuSE gave me yast2 during installation, even with my funky vid card. By the end of the installation, I couldn't see words on the screen (choices) untill they got highlighted by tabbing. Second install turned out ok, except for being stuck with 640x480 display. I wiped it out, and I'll try it on another machine when I get a chance. Greg
Hi Greg I tend to use old hardware and I have the same impression; SuSE 9/XFree 4.x is less forgiving.than SuSE 8/Xfree 3.x was. I also found the 9/4 did not like my new video board (forget the model; it was a problem with the card maker not letting vendors include their driver as open source although you can freely download it. SuSE still did not seem to want to deal with it; will have to go back to XFree 3.x when I get return to it.). doug Gregory Avedissian wrote:
Update:
Micro Center had a deal I couldn't refuse on a dvd drive, so I took a spare hard drive and installed SuSE 9.1 yesterday. The first install had a bunch of errors and wouldn't boot. I saw a list of programs that reported errors, and it was too large to even bother with. I got prompted to start the installation process and went through it a second time.
I guess it didn't like my vid card. Unlike 8.2, this one doesn't come with the xfree 3.x environment that lets me run the 3.x server for my card with xfree 4.3. The entire installation process was done in console version of yast, rather than yast2. This surprised me, since earlier versions of SuSE gave me yast2 during installation, even with my funky vid card. By the end of the installation, I couldn't see words on the screen (choices) untill they got highlighted by tabbing.
Second install turned out ok, except for being stuck with 640x480 display. I wiped it out, and I'll try it on another machine when I get a chance.
Greg
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