Beta Manager Beverly Brown tells us the ins and outs of the Novell Authorized Beta program. Dave Mair brings in Randy Goddard for News from Support. Ted shares some of the recent goings-on in the Novell Community.

The legendary Jeremy Allison graces Novell Open Audio's studio to tell Erin and Ted about the SAMBA project, and why he decided to join Novell. Adam Doxtater from madpenguin.org tells us why he is one of SUSE Linux's newest converts.

Rick Fowler and Allen Tietjen of the workgroup product management team provide us an overview of the Open Workgroup Suite. Dave Mair reviews recent Linux-related news in Novell Support.

Correspondent Lee Howarth investigates the Designer component of Novell Identity Manager 3. Then Dave Mair tells us some of the latest from Novell Support.

Kurt Garloff and Susanne Oberhauser share more details about the May 17 press announcement about how Novell will be working to automate driver updates on SUSE Linux Enterprise.

Martin Lasarsch tells us about all the cool stuff in SUSE Linux 10.1

Ted reports in from travels abroad. A listener requests some words from the Novell video guy, Russ Dastrup. Erin Quill delves into FLAIM, the database underneath eDirectory, GroupWise, and iFolder. Bret Dayley lays down geek rap.

Today Novell announced the acquisition of e-Security, the leading global provider of

security information management and compliance monitoring solutions. We interview Novell

identity management leaders Steve Weitzeil, Loren Russon and Jason

Arrington to find out what this means for Novell customers.

Tens of thousands of organizations worldwide use either NetWare or Open Enterprise Server. Many of these organizations have told Novell that in order to start using Linux as a desktop OS, they must have a way for desktop Linux systems to simply and easily connect to their Novell infrastructure. Jason Williams tell us how Novell is bringing this to life. (The Developers went AWOL. Actually, AWL.)

The amazing graphics of Xgl greatly advances the usability of the Linux desktop. David Reveman is the primary driving force behind Xgl.