After testing the waters for years, Microsoft has launched its first service, Azure Cloud Switch, that's based on Linux. Read now Back in 1992, the idea you could make a business from Linux seemed ...

Choice is nothing if not abundant in the world of Linux distributions, but for openSUSE, it’s a defining feature. No fewer than four desktop options come standard with the software’s latest release, ...

Longtime Microsoft foe Novell signs an agreement to acquire SuSE Linux for $210 million in cash, while IBM will make a $50 million investment in Novell. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

SUSE Linux might not make headlines as often as Red Hat or Ubuntu but its proponents have worked in the background to secure some of the best and biggest big data accounts in the world. If someone had ...

A Linux distribution from the SuSE Linux division of Novell. Both consumer and enterprise versions are available, and the distribution includes several user interfaces. SuSE Linux comes with the Yet ...

Juergen Geck, former CTO of SUSE Linux, is slated to finish his duties at Novell at the end of this week. Novell declined to comment. Geck, vice president and SUSE Linux CTO at the company, said in an ...

Thursday saw the start of the next phase of life for Suse Linux with completion of the merger of its owner into the British company Micro Focus. Will this latest move help or hurt the venerable Linux ...

More packaging options for the leading all-FOSS browser If you can't wait to get the bleeding-edge version of Firefox, we ...

There are more interesting Linux desktop distributions to choose from than ever before. However, if you’re looking for major distros with a great deal of support, you’ll want to look at the big four: ...

German Linux company SuSE settled a trademark suit on Wednesday over the name "Krayon," allowing it to resume shipments of its boxed products in Germany, the company said in a statement. On Tuesday, a ...

Free version of SUSE Linux packs in the features, yet feels unfinished. OpenSUSE 10.3 is the fourth stable release from the OpenSUSE project, the online community founded by Novell to further develop ...

When SuSE Linux founder Hubert Mantel announced his resignation from Novell last week, he became the third former SuSE executive to leave in the past six months. There was much speculation as to why ...