That said, CDXPO also features two of the more interesting Linux-related presentations. At 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 17, there will be a roundtable on the current state of Linux with Holger Dyroff, SuSE Linuxs general manager for the Americas, and the always insightful Stacey Quandt, Open Source Development Labs (OSDLs) principal analyst. Given all the news twirling around Novell Inc.s forthcoming acquisition of SuSE and that OSDL, with the hiring of Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton, has become the center of Linux development, this should be a very interesting panel discussion.