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Likewise Software Ships with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 from Novell
Integrates SUSE Linux Desktop with Microsoft Networks
Likewise announced that its Likewise Enterprise offering will ship as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 from Novell.
Likewise Enterprise securely connects computers running SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 with Microsoft Active Directory — making it easy to authenticate users, control access to applications and data, centrally manage settings with group policies and create reports for regulatory audits.
“Likewise is seeing acceleration in the number of our Linux desktop projects,” said Barry Crist, CEO of Likewise. “Novell is a natural partner for us as it has been a pioneer in the area of Linux desktops with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. The company clearly understands the widespread demand to offer better integration into Active Directory environments.”
The group policies in Likewise Enterprise let system administrators manage the security settings of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop computers and users from a central system. Likewise Enterprise also includes GNOME group policies to control SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop user and computer settings — policies that are based on the GNOME GConf project to define preferences like the default web browser or when to lock down a desktop.
“Likewise helps us meet the requirements that our customers demand; the need for advanced Active Directory integration including support for AD security settings and group policy,” said Guy Lunardi, director for Client Preloads at Novell. “SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 is the most interoperable Linux desktop in the industry and in combination with Likewise Enterprise offers a highly-scalable enterprise solution for large Linux desktop deployments.”
Under the terms of the agreement between Likewise and Novell, all Novell customers who buy SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 will get Likewise Enterprise, and it will be part of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop software repositories.
“Many organizations are integrating their Linux systems into Active Directory because of the centralized identity and policy management capabilities, with the added benefits of enhanced authentication and sign-on reduction,” noted Mark Diodati, senior identity and security analyst at Burton Group. “The embedding of the Active Directory component into the Linux operating system should simplify enterprise deployments.”
Likewise Enterprise addresses the authentication, auditing, and reporting needs of companies running multiple operating systems in their network. Likewise Enterprise is a simple upgrade for customers who have installed Likewise Open and want to use group policies to manage their mixed environment and use the auditing features of Likewise Enterprise to view access reports. The auditing features help companies comply with regulatory requirements, such as those of Sarbanes-Oxley.
Source: Likewise
FarStone Technology Releases DriveClone Express 6-A GREEN Application-Backup Entire PC with No Installation
The First and Only ‘Green Software’ on the Market to Backup and Clone Your Entire System Including OS! Supports Both Windows and Linux Systems!
FarStone Technology, a trusted name in backup and recovery solutions, is launching the new DriveClone Express 6. This software is a reliable force in PC protection, while upholding environmental awareness. As a “Green Backup Software,” it requires no installation and leaves no trace of file or registry on your hard drive.
With the new DriveClone Express users will appreciate the benefits of a New Win-PE 2.0 engine that is 100% compatible with new hardware, a powerful Universal Restore function that can restore your backed up files to similar or dissimilar hardware, and the U.S. Department of Defense compliant Data Shredding function that can securely eradicate an entire hard drive. This software provides protection for all data, applications, music, settings, and even your OS.
“With increasing awareness of environmental degradation along with the continued demand for technological innovations, it is important to provide consumers with software that does not leave an imprint,” explains Thomas Lin, CEO and President of FarStone Technology, Inc. “DriveClone Express 6 allows our customers to receive reliable backup and recovery protection without installation, files or registry left on a hard drive.”
Features:
- Green Application: Requires no installation and does not use hard drive space.
- Bootable USB disk: Use a USB disk as a self bootable device.
- Complete Backup: Make an image of your entire hard drive which allows you to restore the entire system from a disc in case of system failure.
- Universal Restore: A powerful function which can restore system images onto different hard drives.
- Win-PE Engine: 100% compatibility with any future or existing hardware.
- RAID Support: Supports Raid 0/1/5/10/JBOD.
- Pre-Windows Recovery: Allows users to launch DriveClone Express even if your operating system fails to boot.
- Data Shredding: Meets the U.S. Department of Defense standard for clearing.
- CD/DVD Support: Save a copy of your entire hard drive onto a CD or DVD.
- Image Integrity Verification: Ensures that backup images function properly.
- Clone Drives: Enables cloning of a single partition or an entire hard drive.
- Support both Windows and Linux operating systems.
Source: FarStone Technology, Inc.
The Linux Foundation to Make the openSUSE Build Service Available Through Linux Developer Network
Latest build service release includes support for ARM-based embedded devices
Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit — The openSUSE Project and the Linux Foundation jointly announced that the openSUSE Build Service will be added to the Linux Developer Network (LDN). The openSUSE(R) Build Service is the only development platform that enables developers to package software for all major Linux* distributions, and is used to provide transparent infrastructure for the creation of the entire openSUSE distribution. Additionally, the openSUSE Project, a Novell sponsored and community-supported open source project, announced a new release of the openSUSE Build Service with support for compiling for the ARM platform.
“This is part of our ongoing mission to provide not only information, but real tools for Linux developers to empower them and make deploying applications on multiple Linux distributions as painless as possible,” said Amanda McPherson, vice president of marketing and developer programs for the Linux Foundation. “The openSUSE Build Service is a huge step forward for developers and ISVs that want to package their offerings for all major distros quickly and easily.”
The Linux Foundation will be providing an interface to the openSUSE Build Service via the Linux Developer Network site, so that developers can create packages for all major Linux distributions via LDN. The build service enables developers to create packages for CentOS*, Debian*, Fedora*, Mandriva*, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu*, in addition to openSUSE and SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise. The addition of the openSUSE Build Service to the LDN compliments LDN’s popular AppChecker application, which enables developers to create portable applications for Linux. The build service is a perfect tool for LDN’s overall goal of assisting developers to deliver these portable applications.
The openSUSE project is also releasing the 1.6 version of the build service that includes support for compiling packages for the ARM platform, which is primarily used for embedded devices. The support for cross-architecture build support means that developers can create RPM or Debian packages for openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. This work has been contributed by 5e DataSoft GmbH, working as part of the openSUSE community to add support for embedded devices based on ARM. 5e provides solutions based on openSUSE.
“Of all the Linux distros, we’ve found openSUSE to be the best platform for our solutions,” said Martin Mohring, chief technology officer at 5e DataSoft. “Because the openSUSE Build Service is GPL’ed, we’ve been able to add features and work with the openSUSE project to integrate them into the official build service.”
Jurgen Geck, chief technology officer at Open-Xchange, said, “openSUSE Build Service enables us to concurrently build Open-Xchange for all of the leading Linux platforms — making the process extremely efficient and guaranteeing a final product that is broadly compatible. The service is free, its underlying software infrastructure is released under GPL, so there is no lock in.”
The latest release of the build service also includes support for building openSUSE appliances, live CDs, installable USB images, Xen* images and VMware* images. Developers can now create their own custom openSUSE distribution using the build service.
Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier, openSUSE community manager, said, “This is the culmination of years of work by the openSUSE Project. The openSUSE Build Service has always been intended as a tool that would accelerate the general adoption of Linux. It’s gratifying to see the build service becoming part of the Linux Developer Network and being embraced by the larger community.”
Source: Novell, Inc.