More passionate? We're in trouble now.

China Martens says Novell is going to get
more passionate about Linux.

More passionate? Ted Haeger (owner of a tricked-out SuSE-fanboy Dell) was in full Demo Madman mode yesterday, showing off a Novell contribution to OpenOffice.org that enables VBA macros to run (with an appropriate security warning) -- then he and his team put up a brave iguana-throwing effort at Golden Penguin Bowl, narrowly losing to the Ubunteros. More Star Trek watching is in order, gentlemen.

And Bruce Lowry is not just blogging on Novell OpenPR but also running Novell Linux Desktop, I mean SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, on his laptop. (IMHO, an excellent use of PR people in the Linux business these days is as a desktop tester and demonstrator. It's awful PR not to eat the dogfood, but PR people have all kinds of...interesting...desktop tasks, such as getting on WiFi in random hotels and playing back weird multimedia and complicated office-format documents.) 90% of Novell's employees have desktop Linux installed at least dual-boot, and about half of those are using it regularly. Naturally one roadblock is supposedly "web-based" apps that only got tested with one proprietary browser. Will keep up with this desktop rollout and others.

And that's just the marketing people -- among the hackers, Jeremy Allison in a space suit, Nat Friedman with the killer desktop demo...more passionate? Sounds fun.