Novell prepares to take on Red Hat

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Novell Inc.'s purchase of Linux developer SuSE Linux AG sets the company up to build a full portfolio of Linux-based software and to challenge Red Hat Inc. as the leading vendor of corporate Linux products, Novell executives said Tuesday in a conference call following announcement of the $210 million acquisition.

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Novell, Red Hat and the Linux Desktop

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Linux users have been rocked this week by big news from two major vendors: Red Hat has bowed out of the race for the desktop market, and SuSE has been bought by Novell. What do these twin tremors mean for Linux users and the future of Linux itself?

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Novell to acquire SuSE Linux in cash deal

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In a move that has been rumored for months, Novell Inc. announced on Tuesday that is has entered into an agreement to acquire SuSE Linux, a leading supplier of the open source Linux operating system to enterprise customers.

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Lindows working on Web-authoring tool

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In a notice posted on the Lindows Web site, CEO Michael Robertson says the Nvu project is aimed at creating a collection of Web tools comparable to Microsoft's FrontPage and Macromedia's Dreamweaver.

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ARM joins embedded Linux group

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ARM, a maker of processors widely used in "embedded" computing devices such as cell phones, has joined the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF), the company said this week.

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German mid-size firms go for Linux

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FRANKFURT, Germany -- Momentum to migrate from Microsoft Corp. products to open source software is rapidly gaining in Germany, where numerous enterprises are reacting to the U.S. software giant's licensing policy.

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SuSE Linux eyes middleware service market

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FRANKFURT, Germany -- In a move that could help enterprises more easily expand their use of open source software beyond the Linux operating system, SuSE Linux AG is proposing a new service program for middleware products based on open code.

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SCO attacks open-source foundation

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The SCO Group has begun a direct challenge to the General Public License, the legal foundation for Linux, numerous other open-source programming projects and software SCO still ships.

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SCO: IBM cannot enforce GPL

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The legal war between The SCO Group Inc. and IBM Corp. took another step forward Friday, with the Utah-based software company asserting that IBM does not have the right to enforce the GPL (GNU General Public License) software license that governs the Linux operating system.

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Mandrake 9.2 and LG-based CD-ROM drives

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There are issues with Mandrake Linux 9.2 and LG-based CD-ROM drives

From the Mandrake Linux 9.2 errata page:

Error scenario: Installing 9.2 and being told unable to install the base system and subsequent reboot reveals that CD-ROM drive is physically dead.

Why: According to LG Electronics, their ODD (Optical Disc Drive) products do not support Linux nor do they test with Linux. Unfortunately, many Dell computers (possibly others) come with these CD-ROM drives.

Solution: Currently there is no solution or work-around for this issue; it is still under investigation. Damage occurs even when doing a network install. At this point, please do not install Mandrake Linux 9.2 on any computer containing a LG-based CD-ROM drive or it will damage your CD-ROM drive! We are actively looking for a solution to this problem.

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