Novell is looking to Microsoft's biggest enemy - the open-source software movement - for renewal and profits. In its latest strategic shift, Novell is focused on developing software for the Linux operating system. In the meantime, the UnitedLinux consortium - unveiled with much fanfare last year as a unified effort to create a standard Linux distribution - has been awfully quiet of late in an industry segment that has been anything but quiet.

Windows is often the whipping boy when it comes to server platforms. But many in the industry now admit that Windows Server 2003 offers some significant breakthroughs over earlier versions of Microsoft's server software -- a change that could help Microsoft compete more effectively against Unix and Linux servers, eCommerceTimes reports.

"Now that you have NetBSD installed on your palmtop, what will you do with it? Customizing and enhancing the installation can be tricky, but what if you had access to much more disk space? Michael Lucas explains how to enhance your palmtop experience with NFS support, so you can build and install software." Read the article at OnLamp.

Here's a review of SciTech's new SNAP Graphics 2.0 for GNU/Linux. It's a hassle-free video driver program for X that gets excellent 2D performance. When SciTech implements hardware 3D rendering it's going to revolutionize XFree86 Linux drivers. Read the review for the benchmarks and details.

EWeek has an interview with Ransom Love, Caldera's co-founder, wherein he gives some interesting background to Caldera's original aims, the immediate aftermath of the SCO acquisition, the beginning of the feud with IBM, and his views on the GPL. He thinks the lawsuit is a bad idea.

Thanks to OSNews reader "Cyber Jackle", here are nine shots of Fedora test: 1, 2, 3, 4...

The KDE project has just released KDE 3.2 Alpha 2. Among other KDE new releases, you will find KOffice 1.3 beta4 and KDevelop 3.0 Alpha 7.

The second test version of Fedora/Severn, 0.94, is out for your bug busting pleasure. Get the three ISO files and read the release notes. Use a mirror if the new files have being uploaded to a mirror near you.

BlogD features a preview article of the upcoming Mac OS X Panther 10.3. Elsewhere, PathFinder 3.0 was released. PathFinder is a very interesting and innovative alternative to OSX Finder file manager.

This is a helpful article for anyone wanting to re-purpose an old machine for friends or family members, or want to make a firewall or file server out of obsolete hardware. It contains useful hints for tech packrats, such as "throw away old PCs without PCI slots, and "if a component fails intermittently, save yourself the grief and trash it." The article even has hints for convincing your kids that what they really want it a 300 MHz PII with Linux, not a new 3 GHz PC with XP.

Several readers submitted a ZDNet UK story in which head of PalmSource mentions that they may be interested in making a lager, laptop-sized device. There's more on this, and some commentary, at NewMobileComputing.

The Samba Team announced the availability of the first official, stable release of the Samba 3.0.0 code base. In other interesting Unix/Linux software releases this week, we had OpenOffice.org 1.1-RC5, Ximian Evolution 1.4.5, QCad 2.0.0 and Main Actor 5.0. UPDATE: KOffice 1.3 Beta 4 was released too.

Some of the nation's leading computer science and network security experts issued a report warning that computers and critical technological infrastructure worldwide are increasingly vulnerable to attack because of the security practices and dominance of Microsoft software in desktop computing. UPDATE: Microsoft chosen as exclusive Homeland Security contractor!

While Mandrake Linux 9.2 will be released soon to the Club Members and Contributors, MandrakeSoft also released the first beta of Mandrake 9.2 for AMD64 (Athlon64 and Opteron).