An apology from Novell's CEO [LWN.net]

An apology from Novell's CEO

Posted Apr 19, 2003 21:43 UTC (Sat) by Surreal (guest, #10754)
Parent article: An apology from Novell's CEO

It's nice (surprising) they actually noticed the fauxpas. Nice recovery.

The *real* reason I'm posting though is because Kris may read it :-)

I've used Netware since 3.10 was released. Since approximately 4.11 days I've been pestering Novell for a usable Linux client like Windows and Mac users get -- the reply has always been either silence or "here's some lame thing a 3rd party wrote".

If Novell can jump through flaming hoops to reverse-engineer Windows, and even counteract all of the deliberate sabotage MS throws their way, WHY THE HECK can't they give me a freakin' Linux client????

Linux is simply not an option in my (academic) labs until a user can login via NDS and have their home directory on the server, like MacWin users have had "forever".

Please?!?
Surreal

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An apology from Novell's CEO

Posted Apr 20, 2003 4:34 UTC (Sun) by kmagnusson (guest, #10670) [Link]

Novell just released a Linux client for NetWare/eDirectory written in Java that we licensed from a company called N-X, based in Germany. It's supposed to work quite well, though I haven't tried it yet on my Red Hat 8 desktop due to preparations for our BrainShare conference taking up all my time lately. If you send me a private email at kmagnusson@novell.com, I'll tell you how you can get a hold of one.

........... kris