SuSE is partnering with everyone they can...

While Red Hat announced that they are the first $1 Billion Open Source Company Suse is trying to partner with everyone who wants to.  This article points out that they have now partnered with 9,200 Software partners and 13,500 hardware partners. So when it comes to supporting your favorite hardware SuSE should be the best.  While they are the number two Enterprise Distro they are so close support wise that they are an excellent choice for any size company.  Don't forget that a free license comes with VMWare and other software. 

Episode 65 - We want some Pi and Cotton Candy..

Running Time:
1) Introduction

Box.net giving away accounts not at the normal 5GB size but at 50GB of storage for life, theirs not yours, for new android app users until March 23, 2012.  Someone figured out how to use that space as a mount point/drive on your machine.  It's a pretty cool way to get some cloud storage.

2) News
SLES 11 SP2 is out and what are they doing now?  Why is Linus so made at them?
The Consumerization of IT
What really happened with OpenStack and Microsoft?
Canonical's Ticking Time Clock
Wags really wants a Raspberry PI or 10

3) Conclusion

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SLES 11 SP2 is out and Linus hates how secure it is...

SUSE announced that they are making big changes with this SP.  In the past they have only done minor changes and updates.  This time the changes are a little bigger than normal.  They are updating the Kernel to version 3 and adding BRTFS.  This is a big change in the way they are doing business.  For all the details check out this article.

Just as they announced this Linux Torvalds took a few shots at them about their, in his opinion, over bearing security.  We have to agree that some areas like requireing root to change the timezone.  If you want to see some more of his comments check out htis link.

Episode 55 - Joe can’t drive 55...

Running Time: 49:36

1) Introduction

2) News

Yet another clueless Blogger?

SuSE Joins OpenStack and promises a Supportable release next spring

IBM Joins the Cloud race with a Red Hat Linux based PaaS offering

All Patents are Theft and this story can go with it: Apple granted patent for slide to unlock

3) Conclusion

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SuSE joins OpenStack and promises production ready....

While we missed it Suse has joined the OpenStack grouping of companies.  They are one of 125 companies that have committed to the open source cloud solution.  Now they are saying they will have a production ready solution in spring 2012.  So what does that mean?  Well they will be offering a fully supported setup for this new open source product.  Now what about Ubuntu's offering?  While Ubuntu will beat Suse to Market by releasing a solution this fall Suse isn't sure that OpenStack will meet it's production ready standards that soon.  Suse has a demo of the BETA version of the soltuion available over at the Suse Gallery Site.