Novell plans to release tools early this year to let outside programmers help with its OpenSuse version of Linux, the company said Thursday.
The company announced the OpenSuse
project in August as a way to draw more attention and involvement to its Linux products. The move closely parallels the way Red Hat, the top Linux seller, has created its Fedora version of Linux.
Early in 2006, Novell plans to release a "development framework" that
will let outside contributors or third-party software developers
contribute software or patches. The framework also will include a
publicly available server that any registered developer can use to to
build software, Novell said.
Since the OpenSuse.org site was launched, there have been 750,000 verified
installations of Suse Linux, Novell said.
Join the conversation
Comment replyThe posting of advertisements, profanity, or personal attacks is prohibited. Click here to review our Terms of Use.
The company says that manufacturing facilities in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, will be inspected by a group "dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions in factories worldwide."
A group calling itself Evil Shadow Team reportedly hacked into Microsoft's online store in India, stealing usernames and passwords of the site's customers.
The Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 S6500 could make its debut at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month, according to a leaked promotional image.
The space agency powers down its last System Z machine, years after IBM stopped selling them for the mathematical calculation jobs for which NASA originally bought them.
Join the conversation