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are feeling like playing the field these days, and quite a few will be browsing the SuSE distribution at Novell's booth next week at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.

The allure of SuSE was a dominant theme among IT pros canvassed by... More...

Imagine turning three PCs into 30 -- for free -- and getting free Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop software to boot. Known as the Free the Penguins initiative, the goals of the joint project are not only to promote Linux in schools but also to... 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...

The soon-to-be-available Novell SuSE Linux 10.0 is being seen by some as good news for the Linux community as a whole, because it will be the first to implement code contributed from Novell's OpenSuSE project.

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With the beta launch of its SUSE Appliance Program, Waltham, Mass.-based Novell Inc. has climbed aboard the growing movement toward application appliances. The goal of the initiative: to enable... More...

is coming in record fashion for Nuremberg, Germany-based Linux distributor SuSE Linux AG.

Less than a year after achieving Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 2 for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, SuSE is expected to announce today at LinuxWorld... More...

among corporate users. Those two -- Red Hat Inc.'s Enterprise Linux and Novell Inc.'s SUSE -- are poised to leverage their strengths for greater market share while also warding off new entrants into the enterprise Linux market.

Among businesses, support is a... 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...

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Mandrakesoft to acquire service provider

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

The new book, The Developer Shortcut Guide to SuSE Linux was written for developers who want to learn the quickest ways to write customized open source business applications. But the book's author, John Featherly, has... More...

Since Novell made first mention of its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Service Pack 1 (SLES SP1) earlier this year, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has been working with the operating system to ensure it is... 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.

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allow Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) to run as a paravirtualized Xen guest on top of SUSE Enterprise Linux Server (SLES). Analysts lauded the move for the backward compatibility it provides to existing NetWare customers running or migrating to OES 2.

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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...
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...

replace the infringing code.

Novell Inc., which recently acquired No. 2 Linux distro SuSE Linux AG, announced its Linux Indemnification Program a week ago for SuSE Enterprise Linux Server 8 customers. Hewlett-Packard Co., meanwhile, was the first among the... More...

because of an existing partnership with Arkeia. His IT shop was running Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server on one server while a second one ran SuSE Linux Openexchange 8. A third back-end server was set aside as a dedicated Arkeia backup server.

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Novell Inc. likes to point out that it launched SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 a full nine months before Red Hat Inc. could get its latest Linux release, RHEL5, out the door (it is due out in March).

Nevertheless, beta testers... More...

responders for many issues. The lowest scores were shared by OpenBSD, Slackware, SUSE and Trustix.

Naturally, it's unwise to put too much stock in the absolute numbers themselves; it's better to think about what is causing these results. For example, both... More...

the results are representative because RHEL [Red Hat Enterprise Linux] and SUSE [Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise] run on production machines, which is still a small slice of the [open source] market," Weins said.

The universe of open source... More...

with the different distributions, be they from Red Hat, the United Linux quartet of SuSE Linux, TurboLinux, SCO or Connectiva, or others.

"It's important to have basic kernel knowledge and a vendor-neutral certification in case an administrator changes jobs... More...

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