Erin Quill interviews Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier and Martin Lasarsch about the release of openSUSE 11.0. They discuss KDE 4, a quicker installer and package manager, and live CDs.

This edition of open audio is hosted by Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier, openSUSE Community Manager. Zonker talks to some of the team that brought together the merged openSUSE Forums, Wolfgang Koller, Keith Kastorff, Kim Groneman, and Rupert Horstkötter.

Alistair Sutherland is the Managing Director of a leading Consulting practice in the UK specialising in virtualization. Listen to Alistair’s insight on the role that virtualization plays in today’s business, and why Novell’s integrated virtualization stack is the answer.

During our massive blitz of interviews at this year’s BrainShare, Dave was able to grab John Stetic, former CTO of Platespin, for a quick interview. Find out what John has to say about the acquisition as well as what to expect in the future. NOTE: This episode is also available as a video.Time: 21:00MP3 Size: 3.5 MBMP4 Size: 182.6 MB Links for this Episode:

Platespin’s acquisition information

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Dave and Erin get a chance to sit down and meet Zonker, Novell’s new openSUSE community leader, during BrainShare 2008.

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Coming to you from the Open Audio booth at BrainShare we bring you Rick Killpack, Product Manager for Identity and Security Management Solutions. Rick gives us an update on what’s going on with Identity and Security Management.

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Coming to you from the Open Audio booth at BrainShare we bring you Gregory Webb, Product Marketing Manager for Workgroup solutions. Gregory gives us an update on what’s going on with Workgroup Solutions.

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Coming to you from the Open Audio booth at BrainShare we bring you Jason Werner, Product Marketing Manager for Systems Management. Jason updates us on what’s going on around Systems Management.

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Coming to you from the Open Audio booth at BrainShare we bring you Justin Steinman, Director of Product Marketing for Open Platform Solutions. Justin gives us an update on what’s going on with Open Platform Solutions.

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