It has been fairly quiet as far as SUSE is concerned. There was this little rave about 3G in SLED 10 SP2 though.

For enterprises wanting to roll out SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on notebooks, the lack of 3G, or UMTS, wireless broadband card support was an annoying hole compared to the available Windows support.

With the May 21 release of SLED 10 SP2 Novell included a graphical applet and plug-and-play support for wireless broadband in addition to improvements to Network Manager, and support for new hardware devices.

From Novell's CTO there's this long essay about the roadmap of SLED/S.

Novell will also add our value on top of community efforts – by teaming with proprietary partners to achieve interoperability, configuring the system to better address different software delivery models, and providing management tools and unprecedented quality and support.

Over at Matt Asay's blog you'll find this gem about Red Hat-Novell rivalry.

Well, I don't know that Novell has any such intentions in mind - it's a peace-loving company, after all - but I can reveal Novell's welcome banner for Red Hat Summit attendees...

The photo in this short blog item is probably the only thing worth seeing. ⬆