Waltham (ip-192.com): After eight milestone releases and two release candidates, the latest version 11.3 of Novell openSUSE Linux (download is available here) arrives with several new features and technical improvements. The distribution is build around kernel 2.6.34 and ships with Xorg 7.5. Computers powered by NVIDIA-graphic cards will benefit from the new open source Nouveau [...]
Waltham (ip-192.com): Novell has put itself up for sale, several news outlets report. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Waltham, Massachusetts based company can count on up to 20 bidders, most of them private equity firms. An unsolicited takeover bid by Elliot Associates to buy Novell for $5.75 per share in cash was turned [...]
Portland (ip-192.com): Linux may need a diet, according to Linus Torvalds. The Linux creator said the open source kernel has become “bloated and huge.” James Bottomley, a Novell engineer, confirmed during a roundtable discussion at LinuxCon in Portland, Oregon that the performance of Linux drops about 2 percent with every new release of the kernel. [...]
Denver (ip-192.com): Bankrupt Unix vendor SCO is at it again: A federal appeals court reversed a judge's decision that granted the copyright of the Unix computer operating system to Novell. "There are 20 million versions of Linux running around the world," so SCO chief executive Darl McBride in an interview with the Associated Press. "Linux [...]
