Sunday, February 5th, 2012 3:21 pm

Linux: OpenSUSE 11.3 released

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 [...]

Novell: Up for sale?

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 [...]

openSUSE now with KDE interface

Germany (ip-192.com): openSUSE Linux will offer the more contemporary KDE interface as its default desktop environment in future versions. SUSE is one of the oldest commercial Linux distributions. It was originally established in 1992 as a derivative of Slackware. SUSE Linux evolved considerably over the years since its initial release in March 1994 and dropped [...]