Novell Preps Linux Desktop 10
Linux is ready for the corporate desktop, and the forthcoming version of Novell Inc.'s Linux Desktop offering will go head-to-head against Windows, Novell executives said this week at the company's annual BrainShare gathering in Salt Lake City.
Source: Computer WorldNovell is currently developing Linux Desktop 10, which will lift the application suite from its current role targeting specific workgroups to mainstream enterprise deployment, according to Nat Friedman, vice president of desktop and collaboration engineering at Novell.
Currently, Linux on the desktop has been adopted primarily by technology groups and the public sector. "The next release of [Novell] Linux Desktop will be ready to compete with Windows," Friedman said.
Novell's Linux Desktop 9 includes a desktop operating system, Novell's edition of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite, Mozilla Firefox, a multinetwork instant-messaging client and the Novell Evolution open-source collaboration client, as well as technical support.
New features in Linux Desktop 10 will include a desktop search feature dubbed Beagle and a desktop note-taking technology called Tomboy. Also planned for the release, due out next year, is F-Spot, a personal photo management application. Beagle is designed to search documents, e-mail, instant messages, Web history, source code, music files, PowerPoint files and other applications.
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