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The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog Comment For people who just want their computer to work, the "All in One" distribution is one like Mandriva PowerPack, SuSE SLED, Xandros or Linspire, because they include the necessary proprietary bits out of the box.
[December 16, 2008, 7:36]
PDC Day minus one
Blog The HP2133 comes with SUSE linux enterprise desktop on it out of the box. Sadly HP don't supply a rescue disk for SUSE install so I just plain gave up and installed Vista on half the hard disc leaving the other half available to possibly try a...
[October 26, 2008, 15:01]
Dell chooses Ubuntu for Linux PCs
News Today, Dell certifies Red Hat or Suse Linux for use on some business-oriented PCs but, except when larger customers place custom orders, customers must install the operating system themselves. Canonical doesn't yet have the widespread hardware and...
[May 1, 2007, 15:44]
Red Hat simplifies platform for Linux supercomputing
News Red Hat is also using the system to gain some headway in the HPC market, where it lags behind other distributions, such as Novell's Suse Linux. OCS is based on open-source cluster-management tool Kusu, which supports the Suse and Ubuntu Linux...
[October 3, 2008, 15:25]
Leaner, meaner Linux makes savings for Bergen
News SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, the latest version of Novell SuSE's enterprise offering, is being run on the majority of the school servers, and will run on all of the database servers. The city has slipped behind schedule on its database migration...
[November 12, 2004, 15:00]
Java Desktop System reaches version two
News SuSE Linux, now owned by Novell, has been pushing the idea for years. Sun's product is based on SuSE's version, and No. PC seller Hewlett-Packard signed a deal that lets it preinstall SuSE Linux on desktop machines.
[June 1, 2004, 9:15]
Red Hat: Walking the Linux tightrope
News What's your response to the claims that IBM invested in Novell/Suse to put competitive pressure on Red Hat? SuSE did extremely well on all the IBM platforms: they are in on the S390, they are in on the Zseries, they're in on the P-series.
[August 19, 2004, 17:42]
Novell linked to 'Windows cheaper than Linux' statement
News The companies said that they will collaborate on development of specific technologies, for example to help Windows work with Novell's Suse Linux. The research will include Novell offering a version of Suse Linux Enterprise Server with optimised...
[March 14, 2007, 14:22]
Novell: Microsoft 'sucked $60bn' out of the industry
News Under the agreement, Software AG and Novell will jointly develop a database product based around on Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 and the German firm's Tamino XML Server and EntireX Mediator. Novell also announced a deal with server and software...
[September 13, 2004, 17:00]
Data-loss bug afflicts Linux
News Linux seller SuSE also are affected, the SuSE said. However, SuSE by default uses a different file system, ReiserFS, that isn't affected. The new kernel was released Nov.in Linux companies' updates but is not yet a part of their packaged products.
[December 9, 2002, 8:27]
Vista migration plans unexpectedly ambitious
News One company said it is upgrading its several hundred PCs to Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 with OpenOffice.org: "Novell Suse Enterprise provides all the means necessary to be the right choice for business purposes," said the respondent.
[December 5, 2006, 15:36]
Legal technicality puts Linux programmers at risk
News Red Hat did not comment but a SuSE spokesman said he was unaware of the potential for problems. I have to admit this is new to me," said Rudger Berlich managing director of SuSE UK. Parry told ZDNet: "This was a result of advice from my lawyer.
[November 11, 1999, 11:05]
JBoss hints at financial success
News Earlier this month, Novell said it had generated $15m of revenue from its SuSE Linux business in the first fiscal quarter of 2005, of which $7m came from the 21,000 support subscriptions Novell sold for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server.
[March 3, 2005, 14:45]
Telecoms servers get better Linux
News The two leading Linux sellers, Red Hat and SuSE Linux, will add the new CGL features to their products. The new CGL guidelines will be fully implemented with (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) 9," due next year, SuSE spokesman Joe Eckert said.
[October 9, 2003, 16:40]
IBM launches 'Big Green Linux' initiative
News IBM is also collaborating with Novell in a deal announced on Tuesday to sell and support IBM's open source-based WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE) as part of Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server.
[August 9, 2007, 10:07]
VMWare shares out memory
News Version 5 will add some new hosts, including SuSE Linux Professional 9.2, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and Mandrake Linux 10. The software also will support 64-bit versions of host operating systems from SuSE, with experimental support for Red...
[December 22, 2004, 15:05]
Linux reaches 2.6 milestone
News SuSE Linux, the No.seller, has a more aggressive schedule but doesn't expect 2.6.0 until it releases SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 in the summer of 2004, said Kurt Garloff, head of SuSE's lab. Red Hat believes that SuSE's 2.6.0 schedule is too...
[December 18, 2003, 7:55]
Open source: KDE hits back at GNOME
News Among the expected backers, sources said, are Linux distributors including Caldera Systems, Mandrake and SuSE. KDE spokesman and SuSE Labs open-source developer Kurt Granroth declined to comment on the KDE League rumors.
[September 11, 2000, 8:22]
Did SCO open Unix code?
News SCO's Linux product was based on SuSE's version. On Friday, Chris Sontag, head of the SCOsource effort to increase revenue from the Unix intellectual property the company says it owns, said the copied Unix code appears in version 2.4 and 2.5 of...
[June 12, 2003, 8:09]
Sun to drop free StarOffice downloads
News In April, SuSE decided to offer OpenOffice instead of StarOffice in its Linux distribution. It wouldn't make sense to have a proprietary application based on an open-source code base (in SuSE Linux)," said Jurgen Geck, SuSE's head of technology...
[May 27, 2002, 13:33]
