Novell Gets $348 Million From Microsoft

An anonymous reader writes, "Novell has published additional details about its agreements with Microsoft concerning Windows and Linux interoperability and patents. It seems the company is receiving an up-front payment of $348 million from Microsoft, for SLES subscription certificates and for patent cross-licensing. Microsoft will make an upfront payment to Novell of $240 million for SLES subscription 'certificates' that Microsoft can use, resell, or distribute over the term of the agreement. Regarding the patent cooperation agreement, Microsoft will make an up-front net payment to Novell of $108 million, and Novell will make ongoing payments totaling at least $40 million over five years to Microsoft."

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Re: Interoperability?

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If GDM or a service crashes it will restart. If nautilus crashes you can restart it by clicking the Home folder button in the dropdown menu. At least when Nautilus crashes the taskbar doesn't go, along with IE, like it does with explorer.exe which leaves you staring at your wallpaper and hoping it'll start back up.

Well I dunno about that but the first time I installd Ubunty 6.06 and tried to log in the taskbar will stay blank (without the icons) and only the desktop would show the icons. It just wont work even if I restarted X-window and tried again so I could not get into my computer (having removed completely XP)...

I had to install Kubuntu and work with that (but KDE stability sucks bigs ball in my experience).

Oh, and about your Nvidia instrucitons

1) Add universal repositories in Synaptic package manager.
2) Type this in in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common
sudo nvidia-glx-config enable
3) Type Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart your display, or reboot if you prefer.

. But I do think Linux is as easy to use for a newcomer as Windows,
HAHAHAAHHHahahahahahahaahahahahha

BTW, the guide which you linked to is quite scary:

How to install Graphics Driver (NVIDIA)
  (sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common;sudo nvidia-glx-config enable;sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf;and replacing "nv" with "nvidia"; Read #How to restart GNOME without rebooting computer;Enable XvMC by creating the nVidia XvMC configuration file;sudo gedit /etc/X11/XvMCConfig;Insert the following line into the new configuration file, to tell the players the name of the nVidia XvMC shared library:libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1 ; * To use XvMC to accelerate video playback, use the following flags. See [[2]] for more details. xine -V xxmc filename.ts mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc filename.ts

While in the horrible crappy Windows XP you have to:
Download, click OPEN, click I AGREE, click next, next next, next... DONE

Pleeease. I like linux, in fact I am writing this from a half usable ubuntu laptop (I removed WinXP because the activation shit pissed me off for the last time, and yes my computer has a XP Proff sticker under it). But in no FUCKING WAY is Linux simpler than Windows. At least not Ubuntu which is *supposed to be* one of the simplest Linux out there. Maybe Xandros, Linspire or one of them but hey, I am a cheap bastard and wont pay for something I can get for free.