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The end of SCO's fruitless attacks on Linux is finally in sight.

Recently, my colleague James Turner reviewed openSUSE 11 and he liked it. It's hard to tell from some of the notes he got back -- shame on you people! -- but he really did. I, on the other hand, love openSUSE.

Long time fans of openSUSE Linux and its commercial big brother, Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, will find a lot to like in this latest update.

Not sure about Windows 7? Here are five of the best, not to mention free, Linux desktop alternatives.

KDE 4.3 will be released within the next few days, and the latest release candidate proves that the KDE 4 is finally ready for prime time.

There's this delusion out there even now that Linux is some kind of amateur-hour production that only hard-core geeks can use. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Attachmate may be the official owner, but I believe Microsoft is the real power behind the Novell buyout. Here's why.

This pilot fish at a small electronics manufacturer is tasked with building a print server station to print out labels on the plant floor -- and he decides to cobble it together himself.

A perfect storm is brewing ahead and, like a fishing captain who doesn't get that a plummeting barometer means stay at port, VMware is persisting in sailing into disaster.

People loved the Linux-powered Lenovo ThinkPads, but that isn't stopping Lenovo from getting out of the pre-installed Linux desktop market. Thanks Lenovo, Thanks a lot.

Well, it was bound to happen: Linux vendors Red Hat and Novell have been sued for patent infringement. Groklaw is reporting that on Tuesday, the two companies were sued by IP Innovation LLC and Technology Licensing Corp. for violating three patents having to do with windowing user interfaces.

The lawsuit represents the first test of what happens when open source collides with patents, and it's interesting for a couple reasons. First, notice that all the other Linux vendors are missing from the defendants list, most notably IBM. That could be because IBM has already licensed the patents in a different context. (In June, Apple settled a patent infringement lawsuit with the same plaintiffs over at least one of the patents involved here.)

When you can buy a Linux desktop with a complete IBM/Lotus business software suite for less?

It's the silly season for acquisition rumors and besides the return of the perpetual favorite, Microsoft to buy Citrix, there's a new one: Microsoft to buy Novell.

Remember when the mainframe was dead? That was before IBM adopted Linux. Today, IBM continues forward with Linux on the mainframe and beyond.

From the outside looking in, it may always seem like it's always about Linux taking on Windows, Solaris, or Mac OS but there's serious Linux on Linux competition as well.