SUSE/Novell

Linux on the desktop: Soon, but not yet

This blog was contributed by SearchEnterpriseLinux.com expert Sander van Vugt. At Novell Inc.'s annual BrainShare user conference in Salt Lake City, I talked to Guy Lunardi, one of the most important guys behind Novell's SUSE Linux...

Added enterprise distro compatibility within development community

The Novell-sponsored openSUSE Build Service recently added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. This community project provides a development platform for future openSUSE Linux distributions . This is in addition...

The Big Three of Linux: Looking ahead to 2008

What are Red Hat, Novell and Canonical going to have to do in 2008 to in order to dominate the desktop and server Linux market? Let's take a moment and assess the situation. Red Hat is the dominant force in Linux right now. They own the enterprise market. SUSE is also supported by many IHVs as a...

Red Hat, Novell issue back-to-back announcements

In the past 24 hours, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) beta became available through Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. While RHEL has been available...

Does anyone care about the MS-Novell agreement besides, well, MS and Novell?

Over at InternetNews.com, Sean Michael Kerner picked the brains of several analysts to see which of them saw any effects, positive or negative, from the year-old partnership between

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Working with vendors is...

Novell lays off workers, moves positions to India

Novell Inc. today announced a "restructuring" designed to eliminate costly American engineering jobs and re-create them in India, where labor costs are significantly less. On Oct. 9 these layoffs were only a rumor, as we reported it here on the Log, but today it's

XenSource, Novell: N_Port ID Virtualization coming ‘ASAP’ in 2008

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Novell Workgroup layoffs imminent

It was but a rumor last week, but today it looks like it's all true: Novell is set to layoff a large chunk of its Workgroup division. The number last week was an estimated 50-60%, but that's still unconfirmed right now. What we do...

openSUSE 10.3 now available

Novell today announced the availability of openSUSE 10.3. Some of the enhancements were detailed by Novell in a press release today:

• OpenOffice.org 2.3;
• The latest versions of the GNOME and KDE desktop environments;
• The latest version of AppArmor protects the Linux...