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Novell is renaming SUSE Professional and releasing it as 100% open source. Novell spokesman and director of public relations Bruce Lowry says his company is "pushing" to make SUSE Linux available to anyone who wants it. According to sources close to the company, SUSE Professional is to be rebranded as OpenSUSE.

In a recent review article of SUSE 9.3 Professional, I discussed the advantages of using a common distribution to administer CUPS and more easily share a locally attached printer across a LAN. A reader comment about using a network-ready printer instead made me consider that alternative for multi-OS environments where a common platform is not a possibility. I am now the proud owner of a Deskjet 6840, a color inkjet printer by Hewlett-Packard (HP).

Novell and HP Offer Joint Vendor Testing of Complex Clustered Linux-based Stack to Offload Burden from Customers, Ease Their Ability to Deploy

Intellectual property compliance software firm Black Duck has signed deals with two major open source resources, SourceForge.net and the Eclipse Foundation.

A new rating system designed to make open-source applications less of a leap of faith and offer nervous corporations something of an application track record debuted on Monday at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. The proposed open-source rating standard, Business Readiness Ratings (BRR), is being sponsored by Carnegie Mellon West Center for Open Source Investigation, O’Reilly CodeZoo, SpikeSource, and Intel.

Moving on with Epeg, using a source directory of images to either create or update a thumbnail directory.

Welcome to our issue number 7 of Fedora Weekly News

Where are we heading with todays software development model ?

Why enterprise-class open source? Because it works. Think Linux. Think Apache. Think JBoss. These and other open source projects are transforming enterprise IT by leveraging the participatory nature of open source to deliver products and services with superior capabilities and lower prices.

In strategy similar to that taken by rival Red Hat, Novell plans OpenSuse effort to let outsiders contribute to development of OS.

New SPECjbb2005 Benchmarks Show That JRockit Provides the Fastest Per-CPU Results of a Java Virtual Machine for Server Side Applications

Messaging software firm Scalix, which provides e-mail and calendaring systems for the Linux operating system, has moved into the wireless market with a new launch.

As Linux and open-source vendor Novell moves to wind down its relationship with Open-Xchange and the open-source Open-Xchange collaboration server, Novell's primary competitor, Red Hat, is quickly moving in to take its place.

Novell has launched a new introductory Linux training course. The course is intended for academic environments, with the aim of giving educational institutions a pathway to open source training, and to promote Linux among students. A special effort is being made in Malaysia. The courses include the fundamentals, administration and advanced administration of SuSE Linux. Novell also said that it would be donating US$1.5 million in SuSE Linux software and training materials to educational institutions worldwide.

Visual Paradigm Smart Development Environment 3.0 for NetBeans/ Sun™ One (SDE-NB) is a UML modeling plug-in for NetBeans supporting model-driven development.

The central government is to take the initiative to set up a centre next month in Chennai dedicated to creating open source software, said Dayanidhi Maran, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology.

A lawyer acting on behalf of Linus Torvalds has written to Australian Linux vendors asking them to relinquish any legal claim to the name Linux and purchase a licence for its use from the worldwide trademark owner.

IBM has extended support for a development tool after users cried out against the company mothballing it and revoking its open source status. The controversy revolves around the Cgidev02 tool which is part of IBM's Easy400 software suite for the iSeries that lets developers web-enable software written in COBOL or RPG.

South African open source Asterisk users can now terminate calls locally using local bandwidth.

"GNU awk, more affectionately known as gawk, is a compatible version of the awk language--the language is open standard and other awk implementations exist--and it continues to be maintained and developed by Arnold Robbins. Arnold is in fact a long time proponent of open source, has worked with GNU for many years and written numerous books on sed, awk, and other open source technologies..."