Novell CEO: Linux Needs Work to Move to Next Level, Aug 10, 2007

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian says Linux is now mainstream, but developers need to create more apps to expand the market.

I’m actually beginning to picture a day when users start to ask their IT departments why they can’t run Ubuntu Linux at work, the way they do at home.

I managed to crash the inflight system by pushing some odd combination of buttons, but it rebooted gracefully (revealing that it's running Red Hat Linux in the process) and was back online within five minutes.

A private R&D company in San Diego, Calif., has definitely proven the "Repo Man" axiom that "the more you drive, the less intelligent you are." Axion Racing is using a Sony PS3 running Linux in an autonomous vehicle said to have driven Colorado's Pikes Peak.

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian says it is in his interest to give customers GPLv3 code when they are seeking updates, even if the customer was paying for Novell support through Microsoft certificates.

In this interview, [Torvalds] talks about why he released the code, offers his views on Microsoft and says the future belongs to open source.

UK users will have to pay a premium for Dell's Linux PCs, despite Dell's claim to the contrary.

Last month, Fortune magazine ran an interesting article about how Microsoft got its groove on in the massive Chinese market by striking deals with China's government and how Microsoft's success in China appears to be coming at the expense of Linux and open-source software.

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