Found this pretty interesting SUSE Moblin Video on YouTube.
Just thought I’d share it with you:

A few days after the news from Zonker, we get the news that Jeff Jaffe, Novells CTO, is also leaving the company for new ventures in life after 4 years.
What does this mean to the company? What really is going on at Novell?
Here’s some of the postings from Jeff’s Blog:
I hope they can make it… I’m rooting for Novell, but things haven’t been [ continue reading... ]

Recently I got a copy of SLES 11, that I decided to setup to compare against the RHEL I’m running in the enterprise space (for a possible migration path).
One of the first things I checked up on, was local password complexity to adhere within Sarbanes–Oxley (yes.. the biggest pain in the world). In my RHEL implementations I’ve set system-auth to use pam_cracklib.so and use [ continue reading... ]

Today I decided to launch vmware, and give SLED 11 a quick install and a very quick walk through.
SLED 11 is the second major release of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell and is based off of openSUSE 11.1 the free community supported version of Linux supported by Novell. SLED 11 is leaps and bounds ahead of SLED 10 and provides a much [ continue reading... ]

Wine 1.1.17 has been released, here’s some information from www.winehq.org
The Wine development release 1.1.17 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Joystick support on Mac OS X.
– Implementation of iphlpapi on Solaris.
– A number of 64-bit improvements.
– Obsolete LinuxThreads support has been removed.
– Many fixes to the regression tests on Windows.
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In the latest stimulus bill passed by the senate hides a big win for Open Source companies like Novell and RedHat.
On page 488 the topic reads:
Study and Reports on Availability of Open Source Health Information Technology Systems
This bill is saying:
The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, in consultation with the Under Secretary for Health of the Vetrans Health Administration, the Directory of the Indian [ continue reading... ]