A recent eWeek announcement that you can now get servers from Dell with SuSE preinstalled. Deliveries to start in December.

"Dell, which claims to have a 27 percent market share in Linux servers, will continue to provide Red Hat Inc.'s Linux distributions as well. York said that Wednesday's announcement has no impact on the company's relationship with Red Hat. However, the new SuSE bundling will give Dell a lower price point for Linux systems; the operating system comes list-priced at $175 for a single CPU and $275 for a dual-processor system. "The Red Hat offering for both one and two CPUs is $349," said York."

They're talking servers, and the prices are probably OEM costs, so they may not represent anything people here are interested in.

Also recently reported, an email "phishing" scam has elicited a warning from Red Hat. An email sent to many Red Hat users urges them to "click here for critical security updates from Red Hat." The click sends them to fedora-redhat.com where malware is downloaded. (The real place is fedora.redhat.com.) Apparently enough suckers clicked to cause Red Hat some concern.

For details on the scam, click the headline. There's also a News Item on the right that reports some security fixes for a couple of kernel versions that may be of interest.

I would echo the advice given previously that a 30GB hard drive isn't big enough to be very useful with Partition Magic and dual boot. I have a 30GB drive on a laptop running WinXP and it's barely enough to be useful with XP, much less have space for another system. I suppose one might put only the operating systems on the drive and use an external HD for all the data and maybe some productivity programs - a possible approach for the laptop where larger drives aren't available, perhaps.

John