PC Magazine - New software that will debut at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference lets Intel-based Macs run x86 operating systems, including Windows and Linux.

PC Magazine - The PC maker is set to announce a plan to offer its ThinkPad T60p with SUSE Linux pre-installed.

TechWeb - Novell aims to provide companies with a Linux distribution free of any potential legal hassles.

PC Magazine - Citing the urgent need for a single interface that will integrate a variety of virtualization solutions in the Linux kernel, Oracle says it will push harder for all parties to come to the table with a realistic solution.

TechWeb - There seems to be another rift among the Linux faithful.

NewsFactor - Open source specialist Novell is boasting that the latest iteration of the company's flagship enterprise Linux software suite already is drawing throngs of users worldwide less than two weeks after its launch as a data center alternative.

Linus Torvalds, the man behind the Linux operating system, has a lot to say about Richard Stallman who runs the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Torvalds tells the Groklaw legal discussion site, "The reason for the General Public License (GPL) as far as the FSF is concerned was never 'fairness.'...

PC Magazine - A month after Microsoft ended support for Windows 98, Xandros continues to seek converts to its Linux products.

PC World - GNU/Linux 4.0 operating system, also known as "Etch," is scheduled for release in December.

InfoWorld - Officially, a version of IBM’s Lotus Notes client for Linux wasn’t supposed to arrive until sometime in 2007 with the planned next release of the Notes platform. But IBM surprised customers last week with a Linux version of Lotus Notes 7, as much as a year ahead of schedule.

TechWeb - IBM will also allow management of Xen virtual machines under IBM's Virtualization Engine, allowing IT managers to use familiar IBM management software to provision and manage multiple Xen virtual machines.

AP - Novell Inc. will start shipping Release 10 of its Suse Linux on Monday, marking the first full new release of Suse Linux since August 2004, according to the company's president and chief executive officer.

TechWeb - Microsoft COO Kevin Turner said he isn't going to let Google, Novell or Red Hat eat into its enterprise software dynasty and will push partners, premier products and services to pump up revenues

PC Magazine - The Redmond-based software giant is late to market with some of its latest offerings and is looking to new partners, who are already successful in those markets, even if that success was achieved on competitor platforms like Linux, to drive adoption.

Mozilla will unveil the Firefox 2.0 browser beta for download, Tuesday. Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 1 (RC1), will support Windows, Mac, and Linux, and can be found on the company's FTP site.

InfoWorld - IBM released a version of the Lotus Notes collaboration software that runs on the Linux operating system, part of an IBM plan to lower the barriers to enterprise adoption of desktop Linux, a company executive said.

NewsFactor - With the goal of catering to the growing number of businesses adopting open source, IBM is planning to provide a Linux version of its flagship Lotus Notes collaboration platform.

NewsFactor - The holidays came early for devotees of the Linux operating system when a judge last week threw out the majority of claims brought against IBM by the SCO Group in its $5 billion intellectual property rights case.

AP - Red Hat Inc., the leading distributor of the open source Linux operating system, said Wednesday its first-quarter profit rose nearly 11 percent on higher revenue, but the results missed analysts' expectations.

PC Magazine - In this eWEEK Daily News Podcast: Windows churns out another Vista test build, but does it mean the OS is on track for the new year? The other 800-pound gorilla, Google, is planning to roll out its online payment service soon, but will it work? European cops catch suspected botnet operators; and Red Hat's CEO says Linux could become a U.S. standard.