{"id":217,"date":"2009-03-16T01:13:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T06:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourlinuxguy.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2009-03-31T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T14:00:27","slug":"this-5-coolest-things-i-learned-at-novells-att-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"The 5 coolest things I learned at Novell’s ATT Live…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I learned lots of cool stuff last week while I was out in Provo, Utah, at Novell’s ATT Live sessions<\/a>. There was simply not enough time to attend all the class sessions I wanted (in the 4 days I was there), but I’m getting through all the slide presentations and labs for the ones I missed. Phew!<\/p>\n

Now, of course, you are not me. Your list of things you find cool certainly will not match mine, but I thought I’d throw together a short list of 5 diverse things I learned that I’m allowed to publicly reveal:<\/p>\n

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  1. PolicyKit is an awesome way to delegate ownership of Xen virtual machines (as well as many other dbus style applications). This is a fairly-new package that is helping us to punch our way out of the wet paperbag that is posix. Look into it!<\/li>\n
  2. The SLES11 cluster stack is very nice, and is waaaay different than the traditional Linux and SLES10 heartbeat-only method. It will be called the “High Availability Extension” and will include LinuxHA<\/span> OpenAIS (Update: See comment\/reply below by Beekhof), cLVM, OCFS2, DRBD, and IPVS. It will be an add-on pack (I believe they will be called Enterprise Extensions) in some fashion, with specific up-sold support (though the download will apparently still be free).<\/li>\n
  3. As of SLES11, OCFS2 is truly posix-accurate. This means you could use it as a standard user-style filesystem if you wanted to… Fun!<\/li>\n
  4. The mountains in SLC and Provo are absolutely beautiful, but still catch me off-guard. In Michigan, if you are standing outside, and you look over to your right and see something *that* big next to you, you need to run.<\/li>\n
  5. The Mooty toolset is very cool. Mooty is a suite of tools developed by the Novell training team for rapid manipulation of their training machines. Let your imagination go wild with that one. It is clever, fast, easy. I understand they are going to turn it out into the open source as a project someday soon. I’m on the list so I’ll let you know when it happens.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There are so many more cool things, like Domain Services For Windows (Active eDirectory?), all the new developments in ZenWorks 10, the Platespin stuff, and on and on…<\/p>\n

    Thanks to everyone at Novell for the wonderful time. And thanks to all the fellow participants for the great company and conversation.<\/p>\n

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