Haven pointed out a blog entry about some of the work done for SuSe Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. Novell Open Audio has a podcast about this as well.

WSU's EECS department may be interested in this as it apparently works directly with a Microsoft Active Directory server and can not only join the domain just as a Microsoft Windows client does, but it can also supports password expiration, password changing, cached offline Kerberos information, login time restrictions, and many more.

The truly cool, to me, tidbit about this is that the SuSe engineers (Guenther Deschner and Lars Mueller) made these changes to an existing open source project (SaMBa instead of making it a "Value Add" part of SuSe and that Novell funded all of this work (14,000 lines of changes to SaMBa). Kudos for Novell!