openSUSE will not be absorbed by MS in 2 years unless MS is going to be gpling all its stuff, which would be great for everyone, but will likely never happen. The novell deal is pretty irrelevant to the work being done on opensuse-edu. It is by far the best and most up to date edu distro currently available and has changed really seriosuly over the last 2 years. Take a look here: <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Education">http://en.opensuse.org/Education</a> This idea that its sellout somehow affects how good the open source software is or the community is, is quite silly... check the product for yourself... Ubuntu will take a LONG time before it has recovered from its steadly dwindling comunity in the education sector.... I know cause I'm part of that team too, but focus most of my time on opensuse-edu now, since that is where all the movement is happening. kind Regards, David (nubae) Van Assche <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Moon <<a href="mailto:moon@smbis.com">moon@smbis.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> I don't know if I would be that much better off using SUSE (Novell) based or supported products, since Microsoft will probably absorb them within a year or two. I've tried SUSE in the past, prior to their selling out back in late 2007, but just didn't like the product overall compared to Red Hat (including Fedora) and Debian (which includes Ubuntu) based products. They just didn't seem to have a really polished product back then. To be honest I haven't been too interested in SUSE since they sold out to the dark side. I think I'll wait for Ubuntu to get their solutions finalized first. I do think that the ebox people have a good start challenging M$ in the SBS market.<div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 19:18 -0400, David Van Assche wrote: <blockquote type="CITE"> opensuse's LDAP works out of the box and is gui based, for both server and client. Its really very easy to set up... have a search and see... </blockquote> <blockquote type="CITE"> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Les Mikesell <<a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com" target="_blank">lesmikesell@gmail.com</a>> wrote: </blockquote> <blockquote type="CITE"> <blockquote> Moon wrote: <blockquote> Linux client authentication, LDAP implementation, squidguard, any application not in their contibs or howtos due to how they are implemented through the templates. </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="CITE"> <blockquote> Did it claim to do any of those things? I don't think that constitutes "not working out of the box" - although I agree that it would be nice if all linux distributions included a working server setup to match their ldap client authentication schemes. Clarkconnect is supposed to be adding this in the release that is currently in beta, though. </blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="CITE"> <blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="CITE"> <blockquote> -- Les Mikesell <a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com" target="_blank">lesmikesell@gmail.com</a> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com" target="_blank">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org" target="_blank">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="CITE"> </blockquote> </div></div></div> </blockquote></div>