Tag Archives: Novell

Daily links for 05/03/2011

Attachmate lays off Mono employees – InternetNews:The Blog – Sean Michael Kerner “Attachmate is moving swiftly to re-organize the Novell business it acquired for $2.2 billion. Today Attachmate laid off an unknown number of U.S. based Novell developers that were working … Continue reading

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Daily links for 04/28/2011

Review: The best Linux book available | TechRepublic “A thick, heavy book with the equally weighty title A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming may be the single most important Linux book you ever buy.” tags: linux … Continue reading

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Daily links for 03/01/2011

GPL and the Apple App Store [vlc-devel] FSF position on GPLv2 & current App Store terms “There have been changes to the terms since our original blog post on the topic. I confirmed that the changes did not affect the … Continue reading

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Daily links for 02/21/2011

Novell: BrainShare 2011 scheduled for October – The H Open Source: News and Features “The ongoing acquisition of Novell by Attachmate, will apparently not affect Novell’s plans to hold a BrainShare event this year – this will now take place … Continue reading

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Daily links for 01/19/2011

How to Get the Most Out of Your Laptop with Linux | Linux.com “With just a little preparation, a bit of research, and work you can have Linux on your laptop working like a well-oiled machine. And once you have … Continue reading

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Daily links for 08/25/2010

A Look at the Reading Habits of E-Reader Owners – WSJ.com “A study of 1,200 e-reader owners by Marketing and Research Resources Inc. found that 40% said they now read more than they did with print books. Of those surveyed, … Continue reading

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Daily links for 07/27/2010

Ubuntu’s two big advantages over Windows and Mac | ZDNet “I’ve been using the latest version (10.04) of Ubuntu Linux since April and there’s a lot to like about it. I announced earlier this year that I was giving desktop … Continue reading

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Daily links for 06/21/2010

Ubuntu v iTunes: the music playoff for Applephobes • Channel Register “So which Linux music app is the best? Well, that’s up to you. There is no such thing as the best piece of software, just the one that’s most … Continue reading

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Daily links for 06/10/2010

Brazil Wants To Be The Next India and Open Source Is Their Secret Weapon | NetworkWorld.com Community “Though Brazil has several disadvantages they must overcome to compete with the likes of India and China as an outsourcing world power, they … Continue reading

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Daily links for 06/08/2010

Novell Celebrates 10 Years of Market Leadership with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM System z “In recognition of the 10 year anniversary of Linux* on IBM System z*, Novell today announced customer adoption, open source product innovation and ISV … Continue reading

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Daily links for 05/23/2010

Novell’s SLE update adds full KVM support, improved clustering “Novell announced SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 11 Service Pack 1 (SP1) in server and desktop versions. SLE 11 SP1 advances the server version’s virtualization capabilities with full support for KVM, while … Continue reading

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Daily links for 04/23/2010

WordPress › Blog » Secure File Permissions Matter “If you’re a web host and you turn a bad file permissions story into a WordPress story, you’re doing something wrong.” tags: wordpress Four Considerations When Using Open Source in Production | … Continue reading

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My latest video: Novell, appliances, SUSE, microwaves, Linux

While I was at Novell‘s BrainShare conference last month in Salt Lake City, I sat down with Tom Crabb, Novell’s Enablement Manager and recorded a video. The topic was IT appliances, specifically virtual software appliances. You can see it here … Continue reading

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What’s a geeko? Build your own

Ok, this one is just for fun. I was looking for a green Novell gecko earlier today and came across their “Geeko Builder” website. Here’s what I came up with in about two minutes:

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Daily links for 03/30/2010

SUSE Linux Enterprise 11′s renewal plans – The H Open Source: News and Features “Other important features in Service Pack 1 are kernel resource management and support for up to 4096 CPUs and 16TB of RAM in a system. Xen … Continue reading

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Daily links for 03/23/2010

Novell revives annual BrainShare conference, dispels rumors | Deseret News “Although BrainShare was not held in 2009 because of the rocky economy, BrainShare 20TEN, as it’s being called, has drawn roughly 4,000 attendees for four days of hands-on training, networking … Continue reading

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“Linux as a Catalyst for a Smarter Planet” at Novell BrainShare

On Tuesday morning, March 23, at 10:30 in Salt Lake City, Jean Staten Healy and I will be presenting a talk called “Linux as a Catalyst for a Smarter Planet” at Novell’s BrainShare conference. The talk is coded as SPR201 … Continue reading

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Daily links for 03/09/2010

W3C pulls former Novell CTO for CEO spot “Filling a position left open since 2008, former Novell CTO Jeffrey Jaffe has taken on the role of chief executive officer for the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).” tags: novell, w3c Second … Continue reading

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Daily links for 03/08/2010

W3C pulls former Novell CTO for CEO spot “Filling a position left open since 2008, former Novell CTO Jeffrey Jaffe has taken on the role of chief executive officer for the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).” tags: novell, w3c Posted … Continue reading

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Daily links for 02/24/2010

VMware vs. Red Hat: The Next Virtual Machine Management Battleground — ServerWatch.com “Two areas where Thadani said he believes Red Hat‘s KVM-based virtualization currently has an advantage over VMware are price and application support. Exact costs depend on the number … Continue reading

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Daily links for 02/09/2010

Microsoft’s Office business faces more competition – MarketWatch “However, the business division’s quarterly decline – which took some of the shine off an otherwise blockbuster performance by Microsoft’s Windows operating system – also underlines the software giant’s need to maintain … Continue reading

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Daily Links for Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Linux Novell Delivers First Integrated Toolkit for Building, Testing and Managing Software Appliances Novell today announced the availability of a suite of new tools that significantly reduces the time and cost for independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprises to develop, … Continue reading

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Daily Links for Monday, January 11, 2010

Open Source Novell lose[s] Open Source CTSO as Nat Friedman leavesThe H Open Source: News and Features Nat Friedman, co-founder of Ximian and Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Open Source at Novell has announced in a blog posting that … Continue reading

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Daily Links for Thursday, January 7, 2010 – Afternoon Edition

Linux MSI Ships First Netbook Powered By SUSE Moblin From NovellNovell, Inc. Addressing the growing demand for lightweight, mobile netbook devices, MSI and Novell today announced the upcoming availability of SUSE® Moblin preloaded on the MSI U135 netbook. Following the … Continue reading

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