While you can still download many free versions of Linux online, for convenience sake, several vendors offer user-friendly versions and charge a fee for support. Red Hat and Novell are the primary desktop Linux vendors, but another Linux distribution for the desktop is on the rise — and it is completely free.
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CIO Prediction: Novell to be Acquired in 6 Months
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Opinion that Novell will not endure as a standalone company this year; new interview with Ron Hovsepian
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The Small Business Server Replacement is Clear(OS)
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Microsoft still has a stranglehold on the desktop and servers for small business. While wheels are in motion for the former, the answer to the latter may already be here.
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What rankles in open source buy-outs
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Now it's true that programmers who helped build mySQL and Zimbra don't own the project. They don't have a legal claim on the businesses their code built.
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Jaspersoft CEO Targets 50% Growth in 2010
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Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile, like many of his open source peers, has some lofty goals for 2010. With the help of SaaS and on-premise partners, Gentile says Jaspersoft — which specializes in business intelligence software — can grow 50 percent and generate positive cash flow in 2010. Here’s the scoop,
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New Roadmap Charting The Road Ahead
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It’s my pleasure to introduce to you the single greatest Launchpad planning achievement for 2010: the roadmap.
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EtherPad source code is free, now what?
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Google's newly-acquired startup AppJet released the source code to its popular EtherPad web editor recently, making good on a promise to EtherPad's users who were previously faced with a service shutdown following the acquisition.
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Ximian Founder Nat Friedman Leaves Novell
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After nearly 7 years at Novell and over 11 years in the Linux business, the newly-wed Nat Friedman will take a trip around the world before founding a startup in the U.S.A..
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Online Productivity Tools for the Small Business
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Small business owners may have more of a need than most to be able to access their chosen suite of productivity tools from more than one computer or platform. As a business or startup owner you may have occasion to bring your work home with you, or require frequent access to your to-do lists, notes and documents on the go.
Read more »Novell Restructure Could Facilitate Buyout of Novell Division
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Potential reason or consequence of Novell's management exodus and restructuring process
Read more »VMware to buy Zimbra to bolster cloud computing push
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VMware is poised Tuesday to further redefine its cloud strategy by buying Yahoo's Zimbra open source messaging business in order to expand its stake in the platform-as-a-service market. Zimbra, bought by Yahoo in 2007 for $350 million, is an open source messaging platform popular on the Linux and Mac OS platforms and with universities and service providers.
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Kaseya Prepares Remote Linux Management Tools
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Kaseya -- a fast-growing provider or remote systems management tools -- is preparing to introduce remote management software for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell SUSE Linux, and other Linux distributions. Here are the details.
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Skype And Other Partners Dial Asterisk
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Skype, Polycom and a range of other partners are gearing up for Digium's Asterisk World conference (Jan. 20-22). But the big focus for Digium at the open source IP PBX event will likely involve updates to several new Digium initiatives. Here's an update.
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Invoicing with GnuCash
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One of those tools available with GnuCash is invoicing. With GnuCash you can create a professional invoice that will also automatically post to your accounts receivable."
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Aruba Gets Into Wired Network Management
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When it comes to managing an enterprise network, should it matter whether a user is wired or wireless?
For Aruba Networks, the answer is no.
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