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SuSE Linux has enlisted the backing of server-software maker Veritas Software, an important step in supporting the needs of business computing and keeping up with top Linux seller Red Hat. In the meantime, Novell tried to buy SUSE, sources say.

"SUSE unwraps a must-have desktop distribution for power-hungry power users wanting more than the latest and greatest in 32 bits." Read the review at Open Mag.

SUSE today announced the expansion of the SUSE LINUX Server family with the release of SUSE LINUX Standard Server 8 – aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. Available for Intel and AMD 32-bit processors (x86) and supporting up to two CPUs, SUSE LINUX Standard Server 8 includes features such as Internet access, e-mail, file and print services, plus graphical configuration wizards – enabling Linux novices in small and medium-sized organizations to easily set up the server as a Windows domain controller, file and print server in Windows environments, Internet gateway, E-Mail server, application server, DNS server and DHCP server.

With SuSE's 64bit Linux OS out the door sharply on the heels of AMD's Athlon 64, Chris Schläger, Director of Distribution Development, gives us the low-down on why the 64bit SuSE Linux 9.0 Desktop operating system is the only choice for making the 64bit leap. Also on hand to offer their wisdom were Malcolm Yates, SuSE's Strategic Alliance man, and Marketing Director Jasmin Ul-Haque.

MadPenguin takes the scoop with a first look at SuSE Linux 9.0. The review is very favorable. Screenshots are included.

SuSE Linux announced today that it will release SuSE Linux 9.0 on October 24. The latest version of the company's home user operating system will be the first to support AMD's Athlon 64 CPU, and will include a test version of the 2.6 Linux kernel, according to Holger Dyroff, SuSE's GM, Americas.

SGI will be bundling SuSE Enterprise Linux on its Altix 3000 64 processor servers and superclusters, beginning in October. SuSE will also provide 3rd-level support to SGI customers.

FrankoBoy writes for Slashdot: "CRN has an interview with SuSE CEO Richard Seibt in which he claims such things as 'Linux means two companies: Red Hat and SuSE, and nobody else.' Another example of this kind of corporatespeak can be found in another interview he did with ZDNet last week. DistroWatch has an article about all this in its current weekly newsletter."

Today OfB.biz put the microscope on the successor to the spring Penguin Shootout award's winner on their website, -- SuSE Linux 8.1. Read more at OfB.biz

SuSE Linux plans to start shipping its Linux-based Standard Server 8 software worldwide in September. Beta version will be available next week.

MadPenguin published a review with screenshots of the newly released SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0.

Today marks the release of SuSE's new Linux Desktop for Enterprises. The theory behind this product is that it provides (in press release-speak), "a user-friendly, flexible, SuSE maintained desktop built for large IT infrastructures, software development and high performance computing environments." Sounds great, but what does that mean? Read Roblimo's article at NewsForge.

SuSE Linux AG made the "Live Eval" version of SuSE Linux 8.2 available for free download. With this version, you can take a glance at the look and feel of SuSE Linux on your machine before you decide to deploy SuSE Linux on your PC. If you prefer the FTP installation instead (which installs the full SuSE Linux on your hard drive), check the tutorial over at PCLinuxOnline.

SuSE Linux plans to continue honoring its commitments to UnitedLinux, despite allegations by SCO Group --a fellow founding member of the alliance-- that Linux contains unauthorized intellectual property. Meanwhile, Linux vendors MandrakeSoft and Red Hat --which are not members of the UnitedLinux group-- said they had not been contacted about the allegations and did not see them affecting business.