NewsForge: SUSE’s Latest Release Announcement Shows Novell Influence

“The press release announcing the upcoming SUSE 9.1, based on
the 2.6 kernel, was headed, ‘Novell Releases First Commercial Linux
Featuring 2.6 Kernel.’ The new version certainly sounds nice–we
can hardly wait to get our hands on a copy–but what struck us
first were several points in the press release itself, including
more mention of Gnome than we’ve ever seen from SUSE before.

“We can’t all run out today and buy SUSE 9.1; it’s not expected
in stores until late April or early May. But it sounds like it
might be worth waiting for. According to Novell, it runs on both
32- and 64-bit microprocessors, and includes a LiveCD, a la Knoppix
or Mepis, so you can test it from your CD drive before deciding to
do a full install…”

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