Novell finalises OpenSuse 11
News OpenSuse 11.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) appeared on Thursday, the same day Novell revealed strong growth in its Linux business, strengthening its position against Linux market leader Red Hat. OpenSuse is comparable to Red Hat's Fedora, which is...
[June 2, 2008, 16:53]
Novell woos Red Hat developers
News Novell announced earlier this week that its openSuse Build Service development tool, which already supports Novell's openSuse variations, Ubuntu and Debian, among others, will now support software from Red Hat, Novell's main competitor and the...
[January 25, 2008, 15:45]
OpenSuse 11.1 aims at user-friendly desktop
News OpenSuse competes with desktop Linux distributions such as Red Hat's Fedora and Canonical's Ubuntu, with Ubuntu currently the most popular. Novell has launched version 11.1 of OpenSuse, its desktop-oriented, community-supported version of Linux.
[December 16, 2008, 15:25]
SuSE seeks developers
News Novell plans to begin opening up development of one of its Linux products to outside programmers in a project called OpenSuSE, a strategy similar to that taken by rival Red Hat, Novell is expected to announce next week.
[August 3, 2005, 8:55]
Novell woos Linux developers
News Novell plans to release tools early this year to let outside programmers help with OpenSuSE, the company said on Thursday. The company announced the OpenSuSE project in August as a way to draw more attention and involvement to its Linux products.
[January 6, 2006, 7:50]
Mandriva latest to spurn Microsoft
News Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution in the world, according to open-source monitoring site DistroWatch, while Novell's OpenSuse is at number two. Mandriva has followed other Linux distributors, such as Canonical and Red Hat, in publicly...
[June 22, 2007, 11:39]
Novell to shield Linux users
News The AppArmor software is available for download and will be integrated into OpenSuSE on Jan. Novell's chief rival, Red Hat, has been adding such features into its product through the use of SELinux, added to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2005.
[January 10, 2006, 15:05]
Does Microsoft's Novell pact mean war on Linux?
News In addition, Microsoft pledged not to assert patents against unpaid open-source programmers or against any open-source programmers contributing to Novell's OpenSuse. But the extent to which customers are reassured by the deal correlates directly...
[November 6, 2006, 8:57]
Red Hat releases Fedora 7
News Fedora competes with OpenSuse from Novell and with the up-and-coming Ubuntu version of Linux from Canonical. Red Hat on Thursday released a new edition of its hobby version of Linux, Fedora 7, a version which unifies the work of programmers inside...
[June 4, 2007, 9:37]
Fedora 5 released
News Novell, whose OpenSuSE project competes with Fedora for developer attention, has a different approach to Linux eye candy called XglL. Red Hat released Fedora Core 5 on Monday, with new graphics and virtualisation abilities included, as well as some...
[March 22, 2006, 8:15]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog Both are the "open source" distributions of their commercial parents (openSuSE from Novell SuSE Linux, and Fedora from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. There are two exceptions which don't fit neatly on my "scale" of distributions - openSuSE and The...
[December 15, 2008, 8:13]
CPU Frequency Scaling
Blog How about openSuSE and SuSE Linux Enterprise 11? Hmmm.those guys at Red Hat are good! Reducing the CPU speed is an important part of power management in modern laptop computers. In fact, running the CPU at a lower speed not only saves power, it...
[April 3, 2009, 14:03]
Microsoft signs Linux pact with Novell
News In addition, Microsoft promised not to assert patents against developers being paid to create code for OpenSuse, Smith said. And among Linux companies, "Novell is likely to receive a significant boost in attention and credibility, and Red Hat will...
[November 3, 2006, 8:32]
Dell tests users' appetite for Linux
News In its questionnaire, Dell lists five Linux desktop distributions that it could prioritise: Novell/Suse Linux Desktop, Red Hat Enterprise Desktop, Fedora, OpenSuse Linux and Ubuntu. Last month, Dell acknowledged user pressure for it to adopt Linux...
[March 14, 2007, 15:49]
