Tag archive: Suse

The Attachmate Group has finalized its acquisition of Novell, completing a $2.2 billion deal announced last November that puts Novell into private hands. Attachmate intends to operate Novell as two separate business units under the Novell and SUSE brand names, alongside Attachmate's own brand and NetIQ. “Novell has had many chapters in its 28-year history and today marks the start of a new, exciting chapter,” said… Read More

Novell raised eyebrows last week when the company announced it was going private via a $2.2 billion purchase arrangement with Attachmate. However, the aspect of the deal that sent a chill through the Unix and open source community was that a consortium led by Microsoft was buying some 882 patents from Novell in a $450 million deal. While neither Microsoft nor Novell are commenting on what patents and IP are involved in that sale, Novell has… Read More

In a move that shows great foresight, as well as a sense of covering all the bases, Google has launched its Desktopapplication for Linux.   Although it’s still in a beta, it’s quite impressive, coming in 10 languages, and covering users of Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, Suse 10.1 and RedFlag 5. The only downside is that it requires an x86 processor.   The Linux version of Desktop follows versions already available… Read More