SuSE next for Dell PCs?, May 04, 2007

Could Dell's embrace of Ubuntu Linux signal the start of a rush for PC manufacturers to offer open source operating systems on their machines?

Netgear will pay $60 million in cash for Infrant Technologies, which offers a "ReadyNAS" product line based on a custom Linux implementation called "RAIDiator."

Dell will not sell Linux PCs in the UK — at least for the time being.

Linux developer Andrew Morton, best known for maintaining the "-mm" test kernels, pointed out what are either some gaping holes in Linux or some great available challenges that you can take on to become the next great kernel hacker, depending on your point of view.

The German federal government in Berlin, which is an advocate for open-source software in the public sector, may have some lobbying to do at its own front door.

A former lover of the missing wife of Linux programmer and accused spouse killer Hans Reiser has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case, prosecutors informed the defense last week.

Here is a six-step process through which I speedily arrived at a highly usable, fully capable desktop Linux system. A comparison to my previous seven-distro Thinkpad exploit appears at the end.

Holy crap, I think they did. Here's the patent for UAC:

Spurred by customer demand, Zimbra has completed a version of its open-source calendar and e-mail server software for Canonical's Ubuntu version of Linux.

Major information technology firms, including Oracle Corp., IBM Corp. and NEC Corp., will set up a consortium to sell servers and systems running the Linux operating system in Japan, a financial daily said on Thursday.

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