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• Suse Linux for VMware ships

  VMware and Novell announced on Wednesday general availability of Suse Linux Enterprise Server for VMware, geared for use in virtualized and cloud environments.

• Software patents hurt everyone, but especially SMBs

  Software patents have figured prominently in the news in recent weeks, thanks not just to Oracle's attack on Google but also--more recently--to Paul Allen's breathtaking multi-victim onslaught.

• What will Ubuntu 10.10 look like?

  When Canonical broke the news recently that Ubuntu 10.10 will include uTouch 1.0, a multitouch and gesture stack, it caused a flurry of excitement about the Linux release's potential for use in tablets.

• Rumored SAP-Red Hat merger seen as a long shot

  Rumors swirled once again this week regarding a possible takeover of Red Hat, this time by SAP, but a number of industry observers said Thursday that the prospect is unlikely at best.

• Microsoft: 'We love open source'

  Everyone in the Linux world remembers Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's famous comment that Linux is a "cancer" that threatened Microsoft's intellectual property.

• Canonical takes a step in bringing Ubuntu to tablets

  Canonical this week released a software framework that brings multitouch interaction to the open-source Ubuntu OS, which could accelerate adoption of the OS on tablets.

• Warning: Five Things to Know Before Switching to Linux

  A happy customer might tell someone. An unhappy customer tells everyone. Converting to Linux before taking a dose of reality might make you a very unhappy customer. Let's be perfectly honest. Linux isn't for everyone-yet. However, Ubuntu, Mandriva, and a few other distributions come close but for now, Linux is a little more difficult to use than Windows.

• Vim editor updated with modern language support

  The latest edition of the widely used Vim text editor now supports both the Lua programming language as well as the latest versions of Python and Perl.

• Oracle, Amazon offer new ways to run Linux from afar

  Organizations hoping to streamline their deployments of Linux got two new options this week for running the open source OS remotely.

• Microsoft: Vista paved the way for secure Windows

  Despite being widely derided (even by Microsoft executives), the Vista OS was instrumental in finally bringing to the world a secure version of Windows, at least if a presentation by a Microsoft security expert at the Usenix Security Symposium, being held this week in Washington, D.C, is any indication.

• Why Linux is more secure than Windows

  "Security through obscurity" may be a catchy phrase, but it's not the only thing that's catching among Windows users.

• New Linux kernel borrows Google packet speeding tech

  Harnessing a pair of protocols developed by Google, the newly released version of Linux kernel should be able to speed network traffic throughput considerably.

• Canonical bundles Linux, IBM database for the cloud

  Canonical is offering enterprises a chance to try cloud computing via a virtual appliance that bundles Ubuntu Linux with the IBM DB2 Express-C database running on the Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) public cloud platform.

• Dell revamps hardware testing in wake of malware issue

  A sequence of errors led to Dell's delivery of motherboards with malware and the company is in the process of overhauling its testing process to resolve issues before dispatching hardware to customers, it said on Thursday.

• VMware says: Windows still matters, sort of

  Is the operating system dead? If any tech vendors were going to make that argument, you would expect VMware to be at the top of the list -- especially now that Google is building its own operating system.