Ubuntu Server: Lean, mean, cloud-making machine

Ubuntu Server is a fast, free, no-frills Linux distribution that fills a niche between utilitarian Debian and the GUI-driven and, some would argue, over-featured Novell SUSE and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Survey: Even Linux-loving firms only deploy it to one-fifth of employees
Half of the businesses that have deployed Linux on the desktop have rolled it out to less than 20% of their workers due to perceived and real obstacles, according to a survey by released by a U.K. analyst firm.

Ex-Microsoftie: Free software will kill Redmond
Bill Gates probably will not sing the praises of Keith Curtis, a programmer with Microsoft for 11 years who's now left the fold and written a book about why the Redmond way will fail. Oh yeah, Curtis is not afraid to speak his mind as a Linux guru, either.

Novell throws support behind Moblin Linux for Intel Atom netbooks, devices
Eschewing its own SUSE Linux, Novell said it will back Intel's Moblin Linux in the fast-growing market for netbooks and smartphones.

Last hurrah: Sun updates Solaris with Nehalem features
In the last major release before its acquisition by Oracle, Sun on Thursday made available version 10 05/09 of its venerable Solaris server operating system.

Novell's SLES 11 is packed to the gills and keeps moving at a decent clip
In our Clear Choice test of Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11, we found it to be packed with useful management tools, to have virtualization threaded though many of its processes, and to perform at rates close to the high bar set by past versions of the Linux bundle.

Microsoft eating up U.S. and global netbook markets
Microsoft's chest thumping last week over its 96% share of the U.S. netbook market for February doesn't appear to be just its normal bravado as the company also is charging toward dominance on a global front.

TomTom to pay Microsoft to settle patent cases
GPS navigation device vendor TomTom has agreed to pay Microsoft to settle patent-infringement cases the companies filed against each other in the last five weeks, but Microsoft will not pay fees to TomTom.

SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 released
Novell unveiled SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 on Tuesday, with features and capabilities that reflect the company's controversial multiyear agreement with Microsoft.

With SUSE Linux 11, Novell draws even closer to Microsoft
The latest version of SUSE Linux Enterprise, Novell's commercial distribution of the open-source operating system, bears more fruit from Novell's controversial two-and-a-half-year-old interoperability alliance with Microsoft.

Analysts: Macs cost more than PCs, but have same hardware
Apart from "Windows or Linux?" nothing will start an argument in a bar full of techies quicker than, "Which hardware gives you more bang for the buck, Mac or PC?"

Virtual server appliance tools leave out the OS
AppZero is planning to showcase its tools for creating Virtual Application Appliances at this week's DEMO conference in Palm Desert, California.

Red Hat targets VMware, Microsoft with virtualization line
Red Hat Monday introduced an entire line of virtualization software aimed at disrupting the current market and leader VMware's position by giving customers an open source option for virtualizing their data centers.

HP says netbook can run for up to 8 hours between charges
Hewlett-Packard today announced a netbook PC that it said will be able to run for up to a full business day on a single battery charge.

New virtual Linux desktop bundle comes 'Microsoft-free'
IBM and Canonical Thursday announced a virtualized software bundle combining Lotus desktop applications running on top of Ubuntu Linux that they say is far cheaper than running Microsoft's Office suite on conventional Windows PCs.

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