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Novell's announcement Tuesday of its intention to purchase SuSE Linux AG, the second largest open source server software provider, set the Linux and open source community abuzz.

Questions abound: Would a combined Novell-SuSE rival... More...

Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) may be growing faster than Novell's SUSE equivalent. But you can't prove it by Alfresco Software Inc.'s latest member survey.

This week, Alfresco, a British open source content management provider (and a Red Hat... More...
Corp., a $1.3 billion life sciences firm based in Carlsbad, Calif., decided to adopt Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise as its platform of choice.

"Saving money is the bottom line," said John Merritt, Invitrogen's systems architect. "And SUSE is particularly attractive in... More...

s latest pitch to lure Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) customers to migrate to Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise appears to be a tough sell.

Last week, in a deal similar to bank enticements that target new checking account customers, Waltham, Mass.-based Novell... More...

MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other ODBC or JDBC accessible databases.

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SuSE release targets SMBs

SuSE Linux AG, Nuremberg, Germany, released SuSE Linux Standard Server 8 for small and medium-sized businesses. The server supports Intel and AMD 32... More...

Dell and Novell today announced an agreement to offer Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES 9) certified on select Dell PowerEdge servers worldwide.

A Dell-Novell partnership has existed for the past eight years, and under the new... More...

accelerate the development and certification of new applications for Novell's SuSE Linux on IBM eServer and middleware platforms.

Through the partnership, ISVs will have access to the technical resources, hands-on tools and expertise available at... More...

four white-box PC manufacturers who will globally distribute PCs pre-loaded with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED10).

European manufacturers ETegro Technologies, MAXDATA and Transtec along with R Cubed Technologies will sell notebooks and... More...

transaction logging and auditing.

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Mandrakesoft to acquire service provider

Linux distributor Mandrakesoft of France announced recently that... More...

Novell Inc.'s hefty price cut on SUSE Linux Enterprise for mainframes last month could signal a move to forestall Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat Inc. from gaining a foothold in that sector of the market, according... More...

firmware updates and various drivers and smaller patches.

This past March, SuSE unveiled SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional, the first major commercial release of the 2.6 kernel release. Though the majority of the benefits of 2.6 are geared to the corporate... More...

s major initiatives this year include the following: the development launch of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, which will incorporate virtualization, consolidation and appliance technologies. The goals: increased optimization with Windows, easier Unix... More...
capabilities at a steady rate, O'Grady said.

Novell issues Service Pack for SUSE
Meanwhile, Waltham, Mass.-based Novell Inc. just released its Service Pack 2 for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, with improvements in interoperability, virtualization... More...
using Linux, and the company said its recent acquisitions of Ximian Corp., and SuSE Linux AG have bolstered its engineering and support capabilities. Novell said Premium Services customers wouls have access to more than 600 Linux support engineers... More...
By all appearances, the migration from Microsoft Windows to Novell SUSE Linux on the server and the desktop at the Windsor Unified School District in Northern California has been almost as pain-free as any IT professional could hope for.

By... More...

SUSE Linux administrators will have a choice in intrusion detection systems next year: They can use the complex, military-grade Security-Enhanced Linux, or SELinux or... More...
to see Linux's benefits until distributors like Red Hat Inc. and a combined Novell-SuSE release 2.6-based server offerings. Red Hat, which released its latest enterprise-grade server software in October, said its next release isn't likely to appear for 12 to... More...
with Ideas International, in Port Chester, N.Y. "They have data center versions of SuSE Linux, high performance technical computing versions and then desktop versions."

But Linux isn't Novell's only defense. Analysts said the company also hopes to hold onto... More...

has staked its future on Linux, evident by its acquisition of Ximian last year and SuSE Linux AG in January. It also made SuSE's YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) system configuration tool available to open source in March. But Friedman said these were more than... More...
and the ability to run NetWare as a paravirtualized Xen guest running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).

OES is used for the delivery of enterprise-level shared network services, including file, print, directory, clustering and backup, but the... More...

into the heart of enterprise data centers today with an announcement that Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES9) would support its virtualization and data center management platform.

Novell will now ship a preconfigured kernel with SLES9 and has... More...

Windows, but a large percentage also use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (48%) or Novell SUSE (21%, multiple versions) in their data centers. Nonetheless, Linux use remains limited in scope, with two-thirds of respondents running Linux on 25% or less of their servers... More...
Once upon a time, he did run Windows 2000, but he migrated off that OS and onto Novell SUSE and Ubuntu 5.11, which he said presented no issues other than a short period of acclimation.

The process began with a dual boot of Windows 2000 and SUSE Linux 8.0 before... More...

open standards very seriously."

Novell Inc., which acquired the No. 2 Linux distributor SuSE Linux AG this year, recently announced its Novell Certified Linux Engineer cert. Novell also offers administrators the LPI 103 and 203 certifications, add-ons to the... More...

Microsoft Windows and even commercial Linux distributions like Red Hat and Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux. In addition to Ubuntu, Dell also offers pre-installed Red Hat and Novell SUSE Linux on many of its server and desktop models.

Fueling the fire even more... More...

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