IBM Offers Pre-loaded SuSE Linux On All Servers: "A day after rival Red Hat announced it had struck a deal with IBM to pre-load its Linux on one line of the computer maker's servers, Novell said it had reached a much broader agreement with IBM to pre-install its SuSE Linux Enterprise Server on all IBM server hardware. IBM will now pre-load SuSE's Linux on all its servers at customer request, including the eServer iSeries, pSeries, xSeries, and zSeries lines, as well as IBM's eServer BladeCenter systems. Previously, both Red Hat's and SuSE's arrangements with IBM meant that, while customers could custom order Linux with new servers, the operating-system software was actually shipped separately by the Linux distributors for customers to install themselves. "