SUSE Linux will this year mark 20 years since it was brought to life by three raw German graduates and a software engineer.

Dell has chosen SUSE as the first Linux distribution available on its Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service.

SUSE, the company that creates and markets the oldest commercial GNU/Linux distribution, is making its first major initiative as a private company, releasing an early development version of its cloud infrastructure solution which is powered by the open source OpenStack.

Just a month short of one year since it forked from OpenOffice.org, the free office suite, LibreOffice, has released version 3.4.2 aimed at both private users and businesses.

Microsoft has announced that its patent-licensing deal with Novell, which expires in November this year, will be renewed for a further four years.

Announced overnight, Novell is to be acquired by Attachmate Corporation for $US2.2b.

Rumours are abounding that following a rejected buyout offer in March, Novell is about to be broken into two parts and sold separately.

Windows 7 could be adopted by a majority of corporates by the end of 2010, if a new survey is correct.

A Suse Studio appliance template is now available for the Ingres database, making it easier for vendors to package Ingres as part of a software appliance.

For those people keen to follow the way of Novell, MSI has announced the availability of the Suse Moblin-based MSI U135 netbook.