Novel Linux Desktop Apps

manofsteel · 05-08-2005, 11:56 PM

I run the automation portion of our Library here in FL, we were thinking of moving to the Novel Linux Desktop, I know that its not yet as popular as SUSE, but its cheaper, has longer Development cycles (so we'er not up grading, every six months) comes with phone support, and saves us money, everything is great, but I need apps, like Java and Flash, stuff, like that, anyone know, where I can dowload and install these from?

mrcheeks · 05-09-2005, 12:50 AM

you can download flash from http://macromedia.com i believe and java from http://java.sun.com.

manofsteel · 05-09-2005, 01:04 AM

but is it going to be able to play like DVD's and stull like that, what im really looking for is propriatary stuff, i guess.

Simon Bridge · 05-09-2005, 05:28 AM

Novell Linux Desktop is just a desktop environment using SuSE isn't it? So the normal Linux apps will work on it. DVD players, your example, are not proprietory AFAIK ... look at mplayer for eg.

jjohnston62 · 05-09-2005, 02:43 PM

I've been using NLD9 for a few months now. The base is SLES9 - Suse's linux enterprise version, so anything that'll work with SLES will work on NLD.

That means that most apps that are working with Suse 9.1, will most likely work with NLD also.

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manofsteel · 05-09-2005, 04:20 PM

I'm a Linux newbie, and I thought that specific distros, had their own rpm's, How had NLD been running for you? any problems?