Since the takeover by Novell and the subsequent patent covenant that Novell entered into with Microsoft, it's been a bit of a rough community ride for Novell's free and open source distribution.

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A new major release of Novell's community-supported distro openSUSE 11 is now available and can be downloaded from the mirrors.

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A quick look at the spring GNU/Linux distributions: Mandriva, Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE

It’s really the most wonderful time of the year. Out of the top 6 GNU/Linux distributions (according to DistroWatch.com), four are releasing or have released builds between April and June. What’s new in them? Mandriva 2008.1 Spring Date: April 9, 2008

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x86_64 or 64-bit Linux, such as openSuSE 10.3, does not have a 64-bit Sun Java plugin for web browsers. Also, the i386, or 32-bit, plugin cannot be used with 64-bit web browsers such as Firefox. Here is a work-around that, which keeps the 64-bit Firefox installation intact.

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The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release.

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HP is planning to introduce desktop and laptop computers that come with Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop operating system preinstalled.

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Suse 11.0 Alpha 1 Release

With another new version comes another new alpha release and a great new look, that is for the install so far. The OpenSUSE development team released on the 18th of this month (January) the alpha version one of the new and awaited for SUSE distro.

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It drives my wife nuts when I reinstall an operating system. She'll just get used to how things are working, and then I go an format the drive and start over.

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You use Ubuntu, not Linux

For a while I've been meaning to write this, and the article "there's more to Linux than Ubuntu" finally made me do it.

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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?

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The first ever patent infringement litigation involving Linux. Here s the patent, for those who can look at it without risk. If in doubt, don t. Here s the complaint [PDF].

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openSUSE is a community-driven project sponsored by Novell – similar to Fedora and RedHat. I haven't used SUSE in quite sometime and with the release of their latest version 10.3, it seemed to be a good time to see how they have progressed.

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Word on the street is that Novell will be laying off 50-60% of its Workgroup division this month, likely toward the middle.

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The openSUSE team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, the openSUSE project provides free, easy access to the world's most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE.

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SuSE wins with 27 seconds. Mandriva has 29, Kubuntu 31, PCLinuxOS 32, and Fedora a disappointing 41.

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After migrating the IT infrastructure - from Microsoft Windows to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell - Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) in India is rolling out SUSE Linux Enterprise across 30,000 desktops and 1,880 servers in T …

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A global survey of open-source enterprise users of Alfresco software has found that deployments of Red Hat Linux have grown twice as fast as those for Novell SUSE Linux since Novell signed its controversial patent and interoperability agreement with Microsoft in November 2006.

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Lenovo seems to have a love/hate relationship with Linux. Last year, it began offering its high-end T60p ThinkPad laptop with SLED 10 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop).

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Novell didn't win many friends in the open-source community with its Microsoft partnership. However, that deal, along with Novell's growing partnerships with enterprise software players such as SAP and now Capgemini are bound to win it friends in big business.

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Word coming down the wire is reporting that Dell is considering switching from Ubuntu to Novell Suse Linux. Right now this is only rumor, but if it's true, it could hurt Dell's attempts to sell more Linux desktops given the current ire in the Linux community against Novell.

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In an earlier post about Novell's Earnings, Larry Dignan wrote that Novell's identity and access management business is only up 5% over last year. This isn't the first time that such news has clouded the Novell annual report either.

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San Diego Unified School District has selected SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell® as the standard platform for its Always-On Learning Initiative, a one-to-one mobile computing initiative designed to give students access to laptop computers with software tools and resou …

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I used Goole Trends to search about different operating system names to understand if their popularity is declining or not. The results are surprising.

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Novell releases a set of 'Meet Linux' videos in the same style as the Mac vs PC ads by Apple to promote the Linux operating system.

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Novell openSUSE project has had a recent history of trouble with its update programs. Now, to make updating openSUSE more pleasant, the project is dropping its support for ZENworks and opening up YAST to community development.

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