Novell Ships SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 1 and New Virtual Machine Driver Pack

Novell today announced that the first service pack (SP1) for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 is now available to customers worldwide. Featuring significant enhancements in virtualization, high-…

Running 32-bit Applications on 64-bit Debian GNU/Linux

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) developed a series of 64-bit extensions to their 32-bit RISC-based Intel IA-32 (i386) compatible processors. AMD sell their AMD64 (x86-64) architecture processors…

Ubuntu Founder: No negotiations with Microsoft in progress

There’s a rumour circulating that Ubuntu is in discussions with Microsoft aimed at an agreement along the lines they have concluded recently with Linspire, Xandros, Novell etc. Unfortunately, some…

SUSE Linux 9.3 security support is now discontinued

With todays release of the CUPS bugfix/security fix update this will mark the last security update for SUSE Linux 9.3. It is now officially discontinued and out of support.

Notable is the…

Red Hat Linux gets top government security rating

"Red Hat Linux has received a new level of security certification that should make the software more appealing to some government agencies. Earlier this month IBM was able to achieve EAL4…

Vote to have Linux Dell PCs available Worldwide

Dell has decided to sell computers with Linux pre-installed. Great move! But for the moment, it only concerns the US... Outside the US, we can't wait to buy a pre-installed Linux Dell PC! Please…

Weekly Wrap-up: The Hottest Linux community stories for the week June 16 2007

Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...

- Reiser Murder Trial Set To Begin

- Why the Dell/Ubuntu Deal Won't…

Skype for Linux 1.4 Beta

This release is also a milestone for us, as it is the natural successor to Linux 1.3 and is the first time we’ve created packages for 1.4. You can also find it via the public download site, so…

What Does MS Want? -- Brains for Sale?

I found a video on the Novell-Microsoft Interop Ability page that clears up for me at least part of what Microsoft wants from deals like the deal with Novell. The video is from Brainshare 2007,…

What's behind Microsoft's open-source deals?

Microsoft views its string of deals with Linux vendors--the latest being Linspire, announced this week--as part of a broader company wide push to improve interoperability.

That's the word…