Novell launches next-generation Linux desktop, Mar 10, 2006

Novell Inc. has introduced the next version of its desktop Linux operating system, a release the company hopes will begin a "viral" migration from Windows in the next several years, said Jeff Jaffe, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Novell.

Xandros on Thursday launched what it claims is the first Linux distribution with third-generation wireless support, at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany.

In an interview via e-mail with Forbes, Torvalds discusses GPLv3, digital rights management and sharks with laser beams.

I don't know about you, but I think any office IT decision maker must take the SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop seriously when it comes time to put the XP, W2K, and older desktop operating systems out to pasture. It just makes too much dollars and cents sense to ignore.

In an interview with IDG News Service, Adam Jollans, Linux strategy manager for IBM, discusses how he sees Linux adoption evolving across vertical industries and in businesses both small and large, and how IBM is adapting its own Linux strategy to mesh with those trends.

Fans of the online virtual world Second Life can now connect from Linux machines. Linden Lab, creator of Second Life, recently launched a public test of the Linux client, sporting the same feature set and interface as the Windows and Mac OS X versions.

Xandros, the leading provider of easy-to-use Linux alternatives to Windows, and Avanquest, a global developer and publisher of best-selling personal and professional software, announced today an agreement to deliver the Xandros line of easy-to-use desktop and server products to retailers, resellers and distributors throughout Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.

Linux is apparently hurting the bottom line for unix software maker SCO Group, in more ways than one. Salavation, however, may well just be sitting at the "Edge" for SCO.

On March 9th, Novell Inc. announced that it had hired a new executive to run its Linux and open source business unit.

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