In recent weeks, Sun has quietly increased its bets on the fastest growing version of Linux in the market. And it isn’t from Red Hat or Novell. Rather, Sun is preparing to certify more of its servers for Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux.
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WALTHAM, Mass.— 31 Mar 2008— Novell today announced it has completed its acquisition of PlateSpin Ltd., a leader in workload lifecycle management solutions for the enterprise data center. PlateSpin allows the movement of workloads between physical and virtual environments regardless of platform or operating system. These capabilities, combined with Novell’s systems management solutions, enable customers to fully leverage their virtualization investments and reduce both costs and server sprawl in their data centers.
“The addition of PlateSpin to Novell’s existing enterprise IT management and Linux solutions will give …

Mono is a project led by Novell (formerly by Ximian) to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET compatible set of tools, including among others a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime. Mono can be run on Linux, BSD, UNIX, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows operating systems.
Microsoft has a version of .NET available for FreeBSD, Windows and Mac OS X called the Shared Source CLI (Rotor). Microsoft’s shared source license may be insufficient for the needs of the community (it explicitly forbids commercial use). The Mono project has many …

SCO Group, best known for suing IBM and claiming it deserved royalties from companies using the popular Linux operating system, said Thursday that a private investment firm has agreed to put up the money to take SCO out of bankruptcy court.Stephen Norris Capital Partners and its partners from the Middle East, which SCO did not identify, have agreed to provide up to $100 million to reorganize SCO and take it private. As part of the plan, SNCP would take control of SCO.
Because of the investment, SCO is poised …

WALTHAM, Mass.— 14 Feb 2008— Novell today announced a significant enhancement to its security and information event management solution, Novell® Sentinel™, that will help retailers meet the detailed requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). One of the most critical compliance requirements for online and endpoint point-of-sale merchants, financial institutions, credit and debit card processors and credit card companies, PCI-DSS protects consumers from data fraud and identity theft by providing stringent guidelines for merchants on …

WALTHAM, Mass.— 13 Feb 2008— Novell today announced it has acquired SiteScape, a leader in open source team collaboration, extending Novell’s leadership in, and commitment to, innovative and open collaboration solutions. SiteScape, the founder of the ICEcore open source collaboration project, brings impressive team workspace and real-time collaboration capabilities to Novell – key components of a broad unified communications and collaboration strategy. The melding of the two firms creates the industry’s clear leader in open, enterprise-strength collaboration and …

SUSE (pronounced /ˈsuːsə/[1], German: IPA: [ˈzuːzə]) is a major retail Linux distribution, produced in Germany and owned by Novell, Inc. SUSE is also a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium.
As of version 10.2 Alpha 3, the distribution is officially named openSUSE.
History
The SUSE Linux distribution was originally a German translation of Slackware Linux. The Slackware distribution (maintained by Patrick Volkerding) was initially based largely on SLS. In mid-1992, Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was founded by Peter MacDonald, and was the first comprehensive distribution to contain elements such as X …

What is Linux?
Simply put, Linux is a computer operating system like the Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows. The difference is that Linux is open source; anyone can view, modify, and redistribute the underlying code. Further, while OS X is designed to run only on Apple hardware, and while Windows runs primarily on x86 processors from Intel and AMD, there are many distributions or flavors of Linux, compiled to run on a wide array of hardware, everything from high-end corporate servers and mainframes, to home PC’s, to cell phones.
Linux began …

Pakej LINUX yang pertama sekali adalah Yggdrasil pada tahun 1993. Selepas pemasangan yang mudah Yggdrasil memulakan sistem X Window dengan pembukaan video MPEG dan suara ‘hello’ daripada sistem. Hari nini Yggdrasil http://www.yggdrasil.com menghasilkan pelbagai produk LINUX dan memberikan pelbagai khidmat sokongan dan teknikal kepada pengguna.
Pakej Slackware juga merupakan pakej yang terawal dihasilkan oleh Patrick Volkerding boleh didapati daripada Internet ataupun CDROM. Pakej Debian http://www.debian.org …