By Linux News Desk Novell's got a new pre-built installation server that simplifies the installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM's mainframes by using z/VM tools natively. It's called the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Starter System for System z and was developed for Novell by Sine Nomine Asso... Feb. 5, 2008 12:00 PM EST Reads: 5,007 |
By Linux News Desk Embarcadero is introducing a new version of Change Manager that allows developers and database administrators (DBAs) to conduct high-speed data and database configuration comparisons from a Linux workstation. Change Manager for Linux runs on both Red Hat Enterprise 5.0 and SUSE Linux E... Feb. 1, 2008 12:15 PM EST Reads: 5,564 |
By Linux News Desk Novell announced the availability of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Starter System for System z, a pre-built installation server that simplifies the installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM's System z mainframes. The starter system eliminates the need for IT managers to se... Jan. 31, 2008 01:15 PM EST Reads: 7,170 |
By Linux News Desk Red Bend Software and Trolltech announced they have formed a partnership to bring over-the-air software component management to Linux mobile phones that use Trolltech's Qtopia application platform. Jan. 22, 2008 01:00 PM EST Reads: 6,735 |
By Linux News Desk CommuniGate Systems announced the addition of CalDAV support to its industry leading Unified Communications platform. The CalDAV standard lets users share scheduling resources and calendar events to boost collaboration and productivity throughout the enterprise. As a standards-based so... Jan. 21, 2008 11:00 AM EST Reads: 6,081 |
By Linux News Desk LynuxWorks announced that it is working with Wabtec Corporation on a technology-based product for the rail industry. Wabtec, which manufactures a wide range of products for the rail and transit industry, selected LynuxWorks' industry-leading real-time operating system (RTOS) products b... Jan. 21, 2008 10:45 AM EST Reads: 5,271 |
By Linux News Desk Qosmos announced their ability to deliver Qosmos Qoala software suite ready-to-run on Bivio Networks' B2000 Series DPI platforms. Qosmos Qoala is a Software Development Kit (SDK) incorporating advanced Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) features and a comprehensive library of protocol and ap... Jan. 21, 2008 10:45 AM EST Reads: 5,847 |
By Linux News Desk Promise Technology announced that Promise VTrak E-Class RAID subsystems will support Mac OS X Leopard and Final Cut Studio in select configurations to be available at a later date through selected sales channels. Jan. 21, 2008 10:30 AM EST Reads: 5,850 |
By Linux News Desk IGEL Technology announced its latest Linux firmware upgrade enhancing the broadest and most powerful range of thin clients on the market. The firmware delivers enhanced security through smartcard authentication of RDP sessions with the inclusion of the new Winconnect RDP client. When c... Jan. 21, 2008 09:00 AM EST Reads: 5,051 |
By Linux News Desk Wind River announced that the LiMo Foundation has selected Wind River's commercial Linux technology as the foundation for its Common Integration Environment (CIE). The CIE solution, including Wind River's build and configuration system with layers, mobile-optimized kernel distribution,... Jan. 18, 2008 02:45 PM EST Reads: 5,970 |
By Linux News Desk CAD Schroer Group (CSG) announced the latest release of its free personal use version of the powerful MEDUSA4 design automation suite, available for Windows and six different Linux distributions. The industry-proven 2D/3D CAD solution now also includes a Sheet Metal Design module, and ... Jan. 18, 2008 02:00 PM EST Reads: 7,018 |
By Linux News Desk The guy who created Gentoo Linux, Daniel Robbins, has offered a solution to the remarkable situation created by the revoking of the Gentoo Foundations's charter several weeks ago: he is offering to return as President. 'I have received permission from my employer to return and serve as... Jan. 12, 2008 02:00 PM EST Reads: 6,803 Replies: 2 |
By Linux News Desk Kevin Carmony, recently-resigned CEO for desktop Linux vendor Linspire, unveiled his new venture, Dating DNA, LLC. Dating DNA provides free and open Web Services which bring 1-click compatibility scoring and other sophisticated dating features to Social Networking sites such as MySpace... Dec. 26, 2007 08:45 AM EST Reads: 6,778 |
By Linux News Desk  Although it has not yet hopped on the server virtualization bandwagon, the New York Stock Exchange - as it builds out the NYSE Hybrid Market trading system that it launched last year - is betting big on Linux. NYSE Euronext CIO Steve Rubinow told a reporter that the NYSE is investing h... Dec. 25, 2007 01:30 PM EST Reads: 10,464 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Auspice Corporation announced that the Auspice OpsLogice Suite of network service assurance solutions is now available on the Linux operating system. Adding support for Linux in addition to existing support for the Solaris operating system provides MSOs with increased flexibility in ch... Dec. 14, 2007 01:00 PM EST Reads: 6,605 |
By Linux News Desk The TuxMobil project covers all aspects concerning Linux on laptops and notebooks. The number of free guides and how-to's has more than doubled in less than three years, and more than 7,000 links to Linux laptop and notebook installation and configuration guides are now listed at TuxMo... Dec. 14, 2007 01:00 PM EST Reads: 6,458 |
By Linux News Desk Dell said Tuesday morning that it would start buying back a gargantuan $10 billion worth of its stock. To no avail. Its price dropped to below where it was in January before Michael Dell returned as CEO, recouping only a little since then. Dell has $15 billion in the bank and generates... Dec. 13, 2007 01:30 PM EST Reads: 7,255 |
By Linux News Desk MontaVista Software, Inc announced two new Linux support packages (LSPs) that make MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 5.0 available for the new AMCC PowerPC 405EX and 405EXr processors. In addition to bringing commercial-grade Linux to the AMCC processors, the new MontaVista LSPs wi... Dec. 10, 2007 10:00 AM EST Reads: 6,606 |
By Linux News Desk The Linux Foundation, currently home to Linus Torvalds, has named Ted Ts'o, the Linux filesystem maintainer and very first Linux kernel developer in North America, a Fellow and chief platform strategist. Shifting over from IBM where he led the creation of an enterprise-level real-time ... Dec. 9, 2007 10:30 PM EST Reads: 6,221 |
By Linux News Desk How Christmas-y! Nudged, it would appear, by China - well, at least it's doing something - the English-language Korean trade press reports that North and South Korea agreed last week at a conference in China to develop a single version of Linux tentatively called Hana Linux and set sta... Dec. 9, 2007 07:15 PM EST Reads: 6,270 |
By Linux News Desk Rice Technology Solutions (RTS) announced that it has been selected by Canonical Ltd. as an Ubuntu linux solutions partner. Ubuntu is a Debian based Linux distribution with a stronger focus on usability than other linux releases. Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical Ltd, owned by South Afr... Dec. 5, 2007 10:00 AM EST Reads: 9,028 |
By Linux News Desk Concurrent Computer announced SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10 from Novell is now available through Concurrent. SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10 is the latest version of Novell's enterprise-class, open source real-time operating system. SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10 was releas... Dec. 5, 2007 10:00 AM EST Reads: 6,305 |
By Linux News Desk BSkyB's in-house creative department has upgraded its Autodesk Flame visual effects systems to the latest version running on Linux-based workstations. It has also invested in the Autodesk Backdraft Conform media management solution and Infiniband high-speed networking. BSkyB's Autodesk... Dec. 5, 2007 10:00 AM EST Reads: 6,689 |
By Linux News Desk ESET announced three new products for Linux and FreeBSD users. The new Gateway, File and Mail products provide SMB and enterprise users with malware protection throughout their Linux infrastructure, without impacting on network performance. ESET Gateway Security for Linix/FreeBSD provi... Dec. 3, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 9,023 |
By Linux News Desk Turbolinux announced it has joined the Interop Vendor Alliance (IVA). The IVA is an industry-wide group sharing the common goal of making technologies work better together with Microsoft systems for customers. With increasing demands for products that support business objectives and lo... Nov. 28, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 12,094 |
By Linux News Desk Canonical announced the availability of the Launchpad Personal Package Archive (PPA) service, a new way for developers to build and publish packages of their code, documentation, artwork, themes and other additions to the Ubuntu environment on desktop, server and now mobile platforms.T... Nov. 27, 2007 06:30 PM EST Reads: 11,206 |
By Linux News Desk COMDOM Software announced new partnerships with the two leading providers of Linux based server operating systems, Redhat and Novell. These partnerships demonstrate an advantage of deploying Linux based operating systems on the server infrastructure of large enterprises and ISPs. Nov. 26, 2007 10:00 AM EST Reads: 10,182 |
By Linux News Desk ESET unveiled three new Linux solutions for enterprise and SMB network environments. The new Gateway, File and Mail solutions are built on the company?s ESET NOD32 Antivirus scanning engine and provide Linux users with the highest level of malware protection with little impact on netwo... Nov. 23, 2007 01:00 PM EST Reads: 7,922 |
By Linux News Desk  David Patrick, CEO of Ximian before it was sold to Novell in 2003 and then general manager of Novell's Linux, NetWare and open source operation, has turned up as CEO of Xkoto, a clustered grid-scale database load balancing start-up. Coincidently, the company just got a $7.5 million B r... Nov. 11, 2007 03:30 PM EST Reads: 8,177 |
By Linux News Desk Novell is closing down its direct sales offices in Israel, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway and Turkey to focus on 10 larger European countries as part of a yearlong shift to a more indirect approach globally that it signaled last December. Novell says it was largely partner-led in these co... Nov. 11, 2007 02:30 PM EST Reads: 8,719 |
By Linux News Desk The company describes the offering as 'an important step in combating the perception that taking Linux security to the next level is a long and complicated process.' See, this security stuff really is complicated and people need all the help they can get or else they'll run machines un... Nov. 2, 2007 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 8,602 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk  The Nigerian government recently chose the Intel Classmate PC and Mandriva for an educational project, selecting it in spite of a competitive offer by Microsoft. But now it seems the Nigerian government is replacing Linux by Windows on the Classmate PC, although they paid for the Mandr... Nov. 1, 2007 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 9,128 |
By Linux News Desk In the run-up to its numbers Thursday there was chatter on Wall Street about Rackable maybe being an acquisition target. CNBC linked it to IBM. Such rumors have been in the air on and off since Rackable caved under competitive pressure. Oct. 31, 2007 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 11,701 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk There's an earlier agreement between the two companies involving Turbo with the Open XML format and the use of the Windows Media Format. Under the new deal, Turbolinux desktops will include Live Search. According to Turbolinux CEO Yano Koichi, 'When strong Microsoft customers are evalu... Oct. 29, 2007 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,623 |
By Linux News Desk  SCO Group asked for approval from Judge Gross of the bankruptcy court last week to sell off Unix to the highest bidder, which means York Capital Management, a financial firm. If SCO does receive $36 million, Novell and IBM (and perhaps others) will certainly be hoping that the money wi... Oct. 29, 2007 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,965 Replies: 10 |
By Linux News Desk  SCO has gotten a $16 million bid from York Capital for its Unix business. Coupled with the $10M line of credit York is ready to provide, it's money enough to keep SCO's litigation against Novell and IBM going and to underwrite its budding mobile interests, the company says. SCO's la... Oct. 24, 2007 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,125 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk SCO has gotten a $16 million bid from York Capital for its Unix business. Coupled with the $10M line of credit York is ready to provide, it's money enough to keep SCO's litigation against Novell and IBM going and to underwrite its budding mobile interests, the company says. SCO's... Oct. 23, 2007 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,499 |
By Linux News Desk Red Hat is looking for middleware partners but says that JBoss requires an 'integrated' consultative pitch - rather than a product approach - to higher-ups in the enterprise, which translates into a longer selling cycle that Red Hat claims will mean bigger deals. It is unclear whether ... Oct. 11, 2007 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 9,605 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk  'We have put everything into this latest commercial release to make it our most complete offering to date,' said Larry Kettler, President and CEO of Linspire, Inc., as Linspire yesterday announced the immediate availability of Linspire 6.0 - the latest commercial release of the desktop... Oct. 11, 2007 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,242 |
By Linux News Desk Novell's free community source code, openSUSE, moved to rev 10.3 Thursday. The widgetry includes a Linux-Windows dual-boot configuration, an improved user interface, enhanced multimedia support and Microsoft Office file compatibility with the latest OpenOffice 2.3 software. Novell says... Oct. 9, 2007 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 8,720 |
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