In a very interesting analysis of Novell at LinuxWorld, MozillaQuest Magazine's (mozillaquest.com) Mike Angelo sees Novell emerging as the leading commercial Linux company. MozillaQuest Magazine (mozillaquest.com) reports: Novell is well on its way to being the number one enterprise and desktop GNU-Linux distributor. It might be there already. Novell dominated last week's LinuxWorld Exposition. Novell will push Red Hat out of its slot as the number one Linux distributor. It will eclipse IBM in the enterprise software arena. And it will help the Linux community to pull the GNU-Linux operating system installed-base ahead of the Microsoft operating system installed-base.

From Linux Today:

A test release of Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 is now available at ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/0.96/x86_64/ and at distinguised mirror sites near you. Like the original x86 architecture release, the AMD64 architecture has three binary ISO images and three source ISO images. This is a single (we hope and intend) test release specifically to check hardware support; the package set is the same versions as an updated Fedora Core 1 for x86 system will have.

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MozillaQuest Magazine (mozillaquest.com) reports: The upcoming "IDG LinuxWorld is a computer show well worth attending -- and the price is right if you register before the show starts. Novell's Bruce Lowry discusses Novell's presence at LinuxWorld. 'As for what we're showing on the floor, we will bring pretty much everything we have that touches Linux.. Which is most everything now!'"

"With its acquisitions of SUSE Linux and Ximian plus its role in the SCO v Linux saga as perhaps the real owner of the Unix copyrights, Novell now is one of the biggest players, if not the biggest player, in the Linux World. So it is not surprising that Novell will be rather visible at the January 2004 LinuxWorld EXPO."

"To kick things off for both Novell and the LinuxWorld Expo, Novell CEO Jack Messman will present the opening Keynote address on Wednesday, 21 January 2004." Novell notables Jeff Hawkins, Nat Friedman, Michael Meeks are participating in panel discussions.

The article also has a list of exhibitors, conference tracks, a list of what Novell is bringing, and an interesting discussion of why one should attend LinuxWorld.

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This year will see Linux finally crack the lucrative desktop market as more commercial software vendors tool up and cash in on the operating system and kernel developers improve graphical interface integration says cult hero and Linux founder Linus Torvalds. Computerworld's Rodney Gedda cornered the penguin power supremo at the Linux.Conf.au in Adelaide.

Computerworld: How do you feel Linux on the desktop is progressing?

Linus Torvalds: Last year was good but I'm seeing a lot more noise about it this year. The server space is easier to tackle first with any operating system as it can be applied to specific tasks such as mail serving; however, the desktop is harder to sell.

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