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Former SUSE Executive Joins ownCloud

ownCloud Inc. has announced that former SUSE executive and ownCloud co-founder Holger Dyroff has now joined the company in the position of  vice president, sales and marketing. Cloud applications are just making their way into the market. ownCloud provides storage support that offers flexible access to user'...

2 February 2012
06:02 GMT

Linux Kernel Maintainer Joins The Linux Foundation

Greg Kroah-Hartman, a maintainer of the Linux kernel project, has left SUSE and joined The Linux Foundation. Even from his position of  Linux Foundation Fellow,  Kroah-Hartman will continue his work as a Linux kernel maintainer."The Linux Foundation does extremely valuable work, and I am proud to join the o...

2 February 2012
03:21 GMT

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Comes to Dell Cloud

SUSE proudly announced yesterday, January 11th, that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is now available to all Dell customers, on Dell Cloud, the brand-new VMware software-based cloud offering from Dell. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is also the first Linux distribution to be used by Dell in its Dell Cloud with VMwa...

12 January 2012
12:21 GMT

OpenSUSE 12.1 Milestone 5 Comes with Experimental GNOME 3.1.5

The fifth milestone of the upcoming openSUSE 12.1 has been released. The latest testing release comes with updated packages, bug fixes and makes several more steps towards completing the goals for the final release. The team is getting closer to using SystemD by default and GNOME 3.2 is getting closer to reality w...

2 September 2011
08:40 GMT

Windows and Linux Interoperability Marriage Expanded to Almost a Decade

  Microsoft and SUSE, formerly Novell, renewed a deal which expanded the Windows and Linux interoperability marriage to almost a decade. Many called controversial an agreement between Microsoft and Novell dating back to November 2006, which was designed to not only bridge Windows Server and SUSE Linux interopera...

26 July 2011
03:37 GMT

Goodbye openSUSE 11.2

Announced by the openSUSE project about seventeen months ago, the openSUSE 11.2 operating system will reach end of life (EOL) on May 12th, 2011.openSUSE 11.2 introduced features such as Linux kernel 2.6.31.5, EXT4 as the default filesystem, the GNOME 2.28.0 and KDE 4.3.1 desktop environments, X.Org 7.4, X.Org server ...

25 March 2011
09:04 GMT

openSUSE 11.4 Officially Released, Screenshot Tour Inside

We are proud to announce that openSUSE 11.4 was made available for download a few minutes ago, and it is our pleasure to offer you a quick look at the new features included in the brand-new and shiny openSUSE 11.4 Linux-based operating system. After more than eight months of hard work, openSUSE 11.4 can now be downl...

10 March 2011
09:36 GMT

openSUSE 11.4 RC2 Comes with KDE SC 4.6

openSUSE 11.4 RC2 is out, the last build before the final, stable release. As you can expect at this point, the release is pretty polished, though there are still some lingering bugs. Many though have been fixed in a recent Bug Squashing day."With red carpets rolling out in Hollywood, you’d expect some applause...

28 February 2011
08:20 GMT

Dell Joins Novell's SUSE Appliance Program

Novell has announced that it has added another partner to the already large list of big names in its SUSE Appliance Program. Dell is now part of the program and the hardware manufacturer will now offer solutions for businesses based on tools like SUSE Studio, powered by Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise. "We have t...

25 January 2011
19:01 GMT

Goodbye openSUSE 11.1

Announced by the openSUSE developers a little over two years ago, the openSUSE 11.1 operating system has reached end of life (EOL) on January 13th, 2011.The openSUSE developers, through Marcus Meissner, announced on January 14th the release of the final security fix for the openSUSE 11.1 Linux distribution and said t...

20 January 2011
09:25 GMT

openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 4 Debuts KDE SC 4.6 Beta 1

The fourth development release of the upcoming openSUSE 11.4 has been released. The latest milestone comes with quite a few updated packages, including some big ones like an updated kernel and KDE SC 4.6 beta, to be expected from an early development release."The openSUSE project released the fourth of six milestones...

3 December 2010
11:04 GMT

Novell To Be Bought for 2,2 Billion Dollars

Novell, a multinational corporation specialized in management solutions and enterprise operating systems such as SUSE Linux Enterprise, will be acquired by Attachmate Corporation with the measly sum of 2.2 billion dollars. Attachmate Corporation enables IT organizations to extend mission critical services and as...

22 November 2010
15:25 GMT

openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 3 Adds Testing Support for Systemd

Almost a week late, openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 3 is now available for testing. The preview build of the upcoming openSUSE 11.4 comes with a number of updated packages including the kernel as well as both the GNOME and KDE desktop environments.A bug prevented the team from releasing the build on time, it was scheduled fo...

11 November 2010
16:11 GMT

openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 2 Comes with Linux Kernel 2.6.36 RC4

openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 2 has been announced. The second development release of the popular Linux distribution comes with some bleeding edge packages, including a release candidate build of the Linux kernel 2.6.36, as well as the usual array of bug fixes and updates. "[T]he openSUSE project announces Milestone 2 of o...

8 October 2010
10:05 GMT

Novell Said to Be Looking to Sell SUSE Linux to VMware

Novell, the company behind the popular SUSE Enterprise Linux distro, hasn't been having a great run lately. The latest rumor is that the company is trying to sell off its Linux business, one of the most serious bidders being VMware.According to the Wall Street Journal, Novell has been in talks with several compa...

17 September 2010
09:24 GMT

openSUSE 11.3 RC2 Is Out, Final Release in Two Weeks

The second release candidate of the upcoming openSUSE 11.3 operating system was announced on July 1st by Bryen Yunashko. This is also the last development release, and every openSUSE user should get it and test it, in order to report existing bugs (if any). Just like the first RC, openSUSE 11.3 RC2 comes with a very ...

2 July 2010
05:07 GMT

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5 Is Ready for Testing

The openSUSE development team, through James Mason, announced last evening (April 14th) the immediate availability for testing of the openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5 operating system. In this new development version, we can find lots and lots of overall improvements, bug fixes and updates to various applications, such as X...

14 April 2010
04:08 GMT

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1 Slated for Q2 2010

Enterprise software giant Novell has put a date on the release of the first service pack for its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES). The first major update since its launch a year ago doesn't bring any big new features and focuses on bug fixes and stability. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1 is ...

30 March 2010
21:31 GMT

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 Switches to Upstart

The most recent testing release of the popular Linux distribution, openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4, is out. Development is moving at a fast pace, so the new release comes with plenty of updated packages, but it's mainly an evolutionary build, thus there's not that much in terms of new features. There will be thre...

26 March 2010
04:31 GMT

openSUSE 11.2 Officially Released

First was Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), followed by Mandriva Linux 2010.0, and now it's time for openSUSE to take the spotlight. In other words, we are proud to announce that openSUSE 11.2 was just released a few minutes ago, and it is our pleasure to offer you a first look at the new features included in the bra...

12 November 2009
09:31 GMT

Novell Launches SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

Novell announced today the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, an operating system created for modern data centers. SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 brings many new major improvements to both SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. Two new extensions were added to improve productivity and reliability...

24 March 2009
11:33 GMT

openSUSE 10.3 Available Now

The long awaited, award winning openSUSE 10.3 has been released today with everything a user needs to get started with Linux. It includes a flexible Linux-Windows dual-boot configuration, Microsoft Office file compatibility with the latest OpenOffice.org office productivity suite and enhanced multimedia support. What...

4 October 2007
10:54 GMT

HP PCs with Linux Pre-Installed

Hewlett-Packard will try selling pre-installed Linux on PCs in some countries as it expands a test program to evaluate the Linux market and moves its PC business into a brand new generation of design factors and functionality.Hewlett Packard offers through a pilot program in Australia a model of its HP PCs with Red H...

20 September 2007
06:56 GMT

Italian Parliament to Perform Major Switch from Windows to Linux

According to some recent rumors, the Italian Parliament has decided to switch to Linux more than 3,500 desktop computers and 200 servers. The Linux distribution that would be most probably used is said to be Novel's SuSE Linux, even though many considered Ubuntu as more appropriate.The migration process is said...

13 July 2007
03:01 GMT

BMW and Audi Are Using Linux

BMW and Audi car makers rely on Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Edition Server (SLED) for maintaining their data center. BMW Group combined SuSE's Linux with the Xen virtualisation software on its servers equipped with Intel x86 dual-core processors. As the results seemed to be highly promising so far, BMW ...

5 June 2007
06:39 GMT

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 4 Released

The openSUSE team is working very hard on the new release of their free Linux operating system, scheduled for release somewhere in October, very close to the Ubuntu 7.10 release. They are proud to announce today the 4th alpha version of openSUSE 10.3. This alpha version brings support for PlayStation 3 gaming consol...

17 May 2007
04:33 GMT


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