SysBench is a system performance benchmark that is available on sourceforge.net. You can download it from sysbench.sourceforge.net and currently on version 0.4.12. It is currently not in the OpenSuSE nor SuSE software repository and you will have to download the sources and build it.
WALTHAM, Mass., 22 Nov 2010: Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL), the leader in intelligent workload management, today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Attachmate Corporation would acquire Novell for $6.10 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion. Attachmate Corporation is owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo. Novell also announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for the concurrent sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft Corporation, for $450 million in cash, which cash payment is reflected in the merger consideration to be paid by Attachmate Corporation.
Often, we move from a laboratory to another or from an organization to another, we are task with making changes to the Linux system’s kernel. One thing to note is that each Linux distribution has a different “recommended” method for making changes. Here, I will document a quick and easy method to compiling the kernel on OpenSuSE 11.3.
If you are a fan of Google’s Chrome web browser, you can get their Open Source version called Chromium for OpenSuSE 11.3. Although there is a Chrome Beta version, some prefer the Chromium version due to it being Open Source!
This is kinda old news since it was announced late last year that Novell will support Moblin and being the lead developer of Moblin for netbooks, they have obviously also adopted the merged effort by Nokia and Intel (Maemo and Moblin) resulting in MeeGo.
