If packed demo rooms are any indication of interest in its latest Linux desktop, Novell has a willing audience.

The scrappy operating system company, which stormed the Linux and open-source scene with its buyout of SUSE Linux two years ago, Sunday delivered a sincere challenge to the XChange Tech Connect audience here in Las Vegas: Take a risk and offer your customers another choice in operating systems.

"Don't slip into comfortable inaction,"said Ladd Timpson, global director of channel and partner marketing at Novell, during the first keynote session of the conference. The title of Timpson's presentation: "Offering Choice In An Open World."

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