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Do-No-Evil Saturday - Part II: Very Little About SUSE and Turbolinux

SUSE (SLES/SLED)



FOR NOVELL'S SUSE Linux side, the past week has been a quiet one if the trade press is any indication. Among the little that existed there was this eWeek article (LinuxDevices) about the H-P Mini 2140 with SLED 10.

HP announced a netbook targeting "business applications" and "instructional use," and available with SUSE Linux. The HP Mini 2140 features a 10.1 screen up to 1366 x 768 pixels, Atom N270 processor, 160GB hard disk drive or 80GB SSD (solid state drive), plus an ExpressCard/54 slot.


This miniature notebook received a score of 8.6 out of 10 from a Web site which rarely covers GNU/Linux.



The HP Mini 2140 keeps everything we loved about the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC—the sturdy aluminum shell, the comfortable keyboard, the compact dimensions—and fixes its shortcomings (SuSe Linux OS, smallish screen). The result is as near a perfect netbook as current technology will allow, at a $499 price that’s right in line with lesser rivals in the class.


Joe the "Var Guy" had a conversation with John Dragoon from Novell.

In this episode, Novell Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon responds to five key questions about the company’s SUSE Linux strategies, broader software efforts and partner initiatives.


There is a copy of it here. At one point during this chat/interview, Joe diverts the discussion towards SUSE only to discover that IDC estimates GNU/Linux growth at 20%, compared to SUSE at 33%. It puts things in perspective, assuming IDC's figures mean much (they most certainly don't because the people at IDC intentionally avoid measuring the right things).

Dragoon declines to comment upon the request for him to break down -- individually -- the Microsoft-granted revenue, thus separating it from the rest.

On a technical level, SUSE (the SLE* series) was hardly mentioned except for in some press releases about LinMin, which supports SUSE. Here is some of the latest publicity about it:



Turbolinux



Cloudmark puts in place a new director with some background or history at Turbolinux. From their press release.

Prior to Sendmail, he served as president of several leading technology companies, including Turbolinux and Object Design.


That's about all there was to see. Turbolinux still appears in articles, but they are not in English; it's just far-eastern languages about 80% of the time.

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