White-Box PC Makers Pre-Install Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop Novell has announced it has signed agreements with four white-box PC manufacturers who will globally distribute PCs pre-loaded with SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 from Novell®. European manufacturers ETegro Technologies, MAXDATA and Transtec along with R Cubed Technologies in the United States will sell notebooks and/or desktop computers with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 already installed, giving customers around the world simplified access to a complete desktop computing solution that dramatically reduces costs, improves end-user security and increases workforce productivity. http://www.novell.com/news/press/item.jsp?id=1173 -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite.