Novell to launch quick-response Linux
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Suse Linux Enterprise Real-Time is aimed at financial traders and others who watch every microsecond of the clock.
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(InfoWorld) - If you're looking for a new Linux-equipped Dell laptop or desktop from the PC vendor, you may be waiting a while. Despite obvious support for the idea last week from thousands of visitors on its new customer suggestion Web site, IdeaStorm, the company said it's not yet building machines with Linux pre-loaded for the consumer and business markets. Last Friday night, Dell posted a note on the IdeaStorm Web site saying it was listening to thousands of users who had posted messages asking for Linux on its machines by moving forward to certify three of its corporate hardware lines -- OptiPlex desktops, Latitude notebooks, and Dell Precision workstations -- for use with Novell SUSE Linux. The company said Tuesday that the note was just about certifying the hardware for being ready to work with Novell SUSE Linux, not an announcement that the computers would be loaded and sold with the operating system in the near future. "Our point of view is that we are listening to our Linux customers," said Jeremy Bolen, a Dell spokesman. He noted that the company already offers factory-installed Linux on some specific Dell Precision workstations for high-end corporate users but is not currently installing the OS on its other laptop or desktop machines. "However, I won't rule out the option of expanding the pre-installation program at a future date," Bolen said. Dell is continuing to talk with the makers of other Linux distributions about certifying the hardware for those Linux distributions, he said. "When you talk about an operating system, if Dell is going to install it and test it, it takes a lot of work" before getting it ready for the marketplace, including having training and support in place. Dell spokeswoman Caroline Dietz said that the company's first post last Friday about certifying machines for Novell SUSE Linux on the IdeaStorm site is only the beginning of such posts by the vendor. "This is an ongoing process," Dietz said. "We're constantly monitoring this and constantly updating this. This first post doesn't mean that this is all we're doing." The IdeaStorm Web site, where customers and other IT enthusiasts can offer recommendations about future Dell products and configurations that they'd want to buy, was started on Feb. 16 by CEO Michael Dell. He is looking for ways to re-energize the company's sales and financial performance after several disappointing quarters.
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Wake up little SUSE, Wake up.  No, that's not good enough.  Wake up SUSE customers, wake up.  Novell is jeopardizing the future of Linux for its own short-term rewards. If you want to see Linux flourish, let alone survive after Novell's five year deal with Microsoft expires, I suggest we make an alternative five year deal with Microsoft. In this case, our part of the deal is to spend the next five minutes, months, or years migrating away from every shred of Novell/SUSE software in our home, office, or enterprise.
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Novell Inc. is prepared to use its portfolio of U.S. software patents to protect against patent lawsuits the open source software it ships, the company said in statements posted to the Novell.com Web site and in an e-mail sent to customers Tuesday.
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Free Software Foundation is reviewing Novell Inc.'s right to sell new versions of the Linux operating system after the open-source community criticized Novell for teaming with Microsoft Corp.
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Novell's SuSE software joins Red Hat as server option. Also: Is AMD in Dell's future?
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Does Ubuntu point the way to the real future for desktop Linux?
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(InfoWorld) - Wind River Systems has acquired technology that lets it provide an embedded Linux OS for devices that need responses in real time. Wind River has completed the acquisition of real-time technology, called RT Linux,Â from FSMLabs to complement its Linux-based embedded OS, said Glenn Seiler, director of Linux platforms for Wind River. Real-time capabilities allow a device or application to respond to an external event immediately as it occurs. The company's Linux-based embedded OS, Wind River Linux, didn't have these capabilities before, he said. Wind River acquired only RT Linux, not all of FSMLabs, Seiler said. FSMLabs will license RT Linux back from Wind River for sale in the enterprise market, so it will not compete with Wind River, he said. The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal. FSMLabs is available as an add-on technology immediately for both Wind River Linux and the Wind River Workbench developer tools, and it will be integrated into both of those products by the end of the year. Wind River is a public company and reported revenue of $266.32 million in its 2006 fiscal year. Wind River did not have a Linux-based embedded OS until three years ago, Seiler said. The company's main source of revenue in its more than 20-year history has been its Wind River VxWorks real-time embedded OS for devices in various markets, such as aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial, and networking. Seiler described a real-time OS as one that has a rapid-fire response time to external events. "Real time means the response is in real time, measured typically in microseconds or milliseconds, as compared to an enterprise/batch environment, where things get scheduled to occur," he said. This kind of OS is required for devices like robots, the pilot stick of a helicopter or airplane, or the navigation or braking system of an automobile, to name just a few, Seiler said. Before the acquisition of RT Linux from FSMLabs, Wind River's Linux OS had soft real-time capability, which means it could guarantee the fastest response possible according to the limits of a device or application maybe 80 percent to 90 percent of the time, Seiler said. Now, having real-time response capabilities in its Linux OS makes Linux-based embedded systems possible for multibillion-dollar markets, such as aerospace, defense, and the mobile phone industry, he said. MontaVista Software also provides an OS that has soft real-time capability, and it is working to deliver real-time capability. Linux heavyweight Red HatÂ also hired a team to support development efforts to increase Linux response times and is eyeing moves into real-time Linux.
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Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) is poised to launch the latest version of its SuSE Linux operating system, providing new features designed to appeal to both Linux neophytes and current users of the open-source desktop software.
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Novell has begun a widely available trial of its Open Enterprise Server, software that combines tools from the company&#39;s proprietary NetWare with the open-source SuSE Linux operating system.
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Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have joined forces in enticing software developers to create applications for Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server software on the IBM Power platform, hoping to provide a boost for Linux among IBM hardware customers.
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Novell launches Web site to defend open-source software.
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Novell is prepared to use its portfolio of US software patents to protect against patent lawsuits the open source software it ships, the company said in statements posted to the Novell.
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Novell has announced the release of its all-in-one Linux product for newcomers and technical enthusiasts. SuSE Linux Professional 9.2 comes with latest open source features, including kernel 2.6 enhancements, KDE 3.3 and GNOME 2.6 desktop environments.
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Editor&#39;s Summary: Novell announced this week it has reorganized internally to better focus on two development areas: Linux and identity services.
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Looking to tap into discontent with Microsoft, Novell is set to deliver this week a package of Linux-based software for the PC that includes Office-like productivity applications, along with e-mail and Web browsing programs.
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Novell is reorganising its business to focus on two key areas - Linux and identity management. The networking software firm&#39;s Nterprise and Linux operations will be folded into a Platform and Application Services group CRN reports.