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Darren Davis Technical Product Manager Novell Open Platform Solutions |
Darren Davis is a Technical Product Manager in Novell's Open Platforms Solutions (Linux) Business Unit and works with Novell's ISV partners to help them develop or port their applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise. Darren has worked for over 20 years in the software industry on application development and porting for UNIX, Linux, and BSD systems for companies like Novell, Avocent, Caldera Systems, and Iomega. Darren was Vice President of Technology at Caldera Systems and involved in efforts to bring Java and Systems Management using DMTF standards to the Linux Platform. |
- Submitted by Darren Davis on Sep 15, 2008
Novell is about to begin the Beta programs for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 which is expected to be released early in 2009. There will be a general Beta program for end customers, and there will be a separate Beta program for ISVs to help them get their applications ready for when SUSE Linux Enteprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 ships. We are planning on following the Linux Standard Base Version 4.0 (which is in development now) with the release of SLE 11
- Submitted by Darren Davis on Aug 22, 2008
I was recently working with a Third-Party ISV that had run into an issue of binary compatibility with their application they built on RHEL 5 while running it on SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. I wanted to point this out for any other developers that may run into this issue. When they built their C and C++ applications on RHEL 5 and ran it on SLES 10, they would get a "Floating Point Exception". This problem also exists between RHEL 4 and RHEL 5. It turned out that there was a change in the hash style of the ELF format generated with newer versions of GCC.
- Submitted by Darren Davis on Aug 20, 2008
This summer has seen a flurry of activity in the Linux Netbook market. These are machines that are small form factor, low cost, typically have solid state storage (though some have hard disks), and offer the traveler or student a light-weight machine for quick email and web. The idea started with the One Laptop Per Child project using Fedora with it's ambitious goal of putting a laptop in the hands of children the world over. The ASUS Eee PC kicked off the main stream consumer use with their Xandros Linux based system. HP has their Mini-Note, and MSI announced the Wi