Linux News Desk

Dell, the world's second-largest PC maker, said late Thursday that its books were cooked by unidentified "senior executives" to hit financial targets and that its financial reports for fiscal 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and the first quarter of fiscal 2007 can't be trusted. It's going... (more)

Novell Inc. added 36 cents to $6.78. The software developer owns the copyrights covering the Unix computer operating system and not SCO Group Inc., a judge ruled in a lawsuit over royalties from users of the Linux computer operating system. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Dale ... (more)

Dell has Ubuntu and now Lenovo has gone with Novell. The world's third-largest PC maker, at least this week it's number three, IBM's hand-me-down to the Chinese, is going to factory-install SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on some of its ThinkPad notebooks and support the operati... (more)

Novell is going to push and support the freebie version of IBM's WebSphere Application Server, derived from IBM's acquisition of GlueCode in 2005, as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server under a new deal between the pair. They're targeting JBoss users and will sell the widgetry tog... (more)

Dell is going to pay its ousted ex-CEO Kevin Rollins, now a senior advisor at private equity house TPG Capital, $48,462,495 cash for his unexercised vested options when it gets around to filing its delinquent 2007 10-K. It's also going to reimburse other unidentified current and ... (more)

Qlusters, the Linux-based clustering operating systems start-up, has raised $10.36 million in Series C funding from NetApp, Benchmark Capital, Charles River Ventures, DAG Ventures and Israel Seed Partners. That makes $33 million. NetApp is a new investor. Dell Starts Manufacturin... (more)

MySQL says that BlueLithium, described as one of the top five US online advertising networks, is using its database in a mission-critical data warehouse application along with the BrightHouse database engine from Infobright and that MySQL and InfoBright will now offer other custo... (more)

Fortune caught up with One Laptop Per Child mastermind Nicholas Negroponte at an airport after his détente with Intel last week and he told the magazine, "We're giving them all our technology." It seems that the unique technology developed for OLPC's AMD-based XO widgetry like it... (more)

The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, announced that Nokia Siemens Networks has become a member. Nokia Siemens Networks will work with the LF and its members to continue improving Carrier Grade Linux. "Linux has beco... (more)

Dell is going to add to the slim number of PCs that it's currently willing to put factory-installed Ubuntu Linux on, according to what Canonical CEO Mark Shuttlesworth, inventor of Ubuntu, told Reuters. Without talking real numbers, Shuttlesworth claimed Dell is happy with the Li... (more)

Intel has started the Mobile & Internet Linux Project (moblin.org) in support of Intel-based widgetry. It's supposed to be an umbrella operation under which a number of key elements for embedded distributions like Ubuntu's Mobile and Embedded Edition, Pepper Linux and Red Flag's ... (more)

The Linux Foundation has borrowed Markus Rex from Novell to be its CTO replacing Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian Linux who went off to Sun a few months ago to be its chief operating systems officer reportedly in charge of Linuxizing Solaris to make it more popular and easier t... (more)

“We’re extremely thrilled to have Markus Rex join our management team. Rex has been a leader in the Linux industry since the early days of Linux, having joined SUSE Linux AG in 1999 and making it one of the leading commercial distributions on the market today,” ... (more)

Dell, which is like a year behind in its paperwork, has got until Monday July 16 to produce its missing financial statements to stay in Nasdaq's good graces, but the company says it's going to ask for still another extension promising the numbers "as soon as possible." It has bee... (more)

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media and events company, has announced the winners of its Linux and Enterprise Open Source Readers' Choice Awards. The awards recognize the best tools, solutions, and education offerings in 13 categories. Winners... (more)

Linspire developer of the commerical desktop Linux operating system of the same name and Freespire, the community desktop Linux operating system, and SageTV, a pioneer in personal video recording and home media center technologies that combine television, music and related media ... (more)

Something like 70% of Solaris deployments are on non-Sun hardware so Sun has taken to offering a new blanket support contract that covers all Sun hardware and software - and optionally other people's x64/x86 hardware too - for a single price. It calls the notion an "open" support... (more)

Linux creator Linux Torvalds was fairly harsh in his criticism of Sun Microsystems in a recent response to a question about GPL2 and 3 at LKML.org. Part of what he had to say: "(Don't make) the fundamental mistake of thinking that Sun is in this to actually further some open-source... (more)

Microsoft has tapped Tom Hanrahan to run its side of its interoperability efforts with Novell. The appointment comes seven months after Microsoft and Novell signed the now-famous pact that raised FOSS hackles because of the built-in patent claims. Interesting choice Hanrahan cons... (more)

Today's Web service providers must understand Quality of Service, filtering techniques and implement QOS and access list filters on their networks. A proper QOS and filtering design helps to avoid network bottlenecks caused by worm and virus infections, sudden spikes in traffic, ... (more)