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News (27)

• Wal-Mart eyes Microsoft for Web build-out

  Wal-Mart is the latest customer to purchase both Microsoft software and support certificates for Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

• Sun looks to mega discount chains for Linux PC

  MENLO PARK, Calif.--Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, has begun selling Microtel PCs that come with Sun Microsystems' version of the Linux operating system.

• Dell buys in to Microsoft-Novell pact

  Dell has become the first PC maker to put its support behind Microsoft and Novell's effort to bridge the gap between Windows and Linux server computing.

• Dell Linux PCs to skip Australia?

  Asia- Pacific customers wanting to get their hands on Dell PCs, pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux, will have to wait.

• Microsoft agitates for open-source patent pacts

  Following some frosty responses to Microsoft's controversial patent deal with Novell last year, the software maker has begun a more aggressive attempt to persuade open-source software companies to license its know-how.

Features and Case Studies (13)

• Who's afraid of the $200 Linux PC?

  Cheap PCs with a Linux operating system seem to have hit the users' sweet spots, with taking the plunge into the alternate OS not nearly as hard as users had thought.

• Sun's novel idea

  Has the sun prematurely set on Sun Microsystems? The company has proposed buying Novell for its Linux business but this move reveals Sun's myopic view on how the IT world functions.

• SuSE widens scope for desktop Linux

  The software maker introduces a version of Linux aimed at enterprise customers, hoping to move the open-source software beyond servers and low-cost PCs.

• MandrakeSoft releases latest Linux

  MandrakeSoft has released the latest version of its Linux software, code-named Dolphin.

• Linux continues desktop march

  The good news for Linux as an operating system for the desktop--as opposed to the server--is that it is set to become number two after Windows in the next year or so.

Reviews (2)

• Lindows--low cost, but a changed tune

  Lindows.com, maker of a Linux-based operating system originally designed to run popular Windows programs, is offering PC makers a flat-rate licensing plan for its OS, in contrast to the per-unit fees charged by Microsoft and others.

• Lindows bids to scuttle Microsoft court action

  Upstart operating system company Lindows is hoping to deal a final death blow to the suit brought against it by Microsoft.

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