Re: [SLE] ...and speaking of SuSE / Novell...

From: Ken Schneider (suse-list_at_bout-tyme.net)
Date: 11/15/05

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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:09:30 -0500

    On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 15:32 -0800, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
    > On 11/14/05, Ken Schneider <suse-list@bout-tyme.net> wrote:
    > >
    > > On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 12:14 -0900, John Andersen wrote:
    > > > On Monday 14 November 2005 03:16 am, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
    > > > > Can all this
    > > > > Novell FUD be taken off-list, please? If you don't like SUSE, or fear
    > > what
    > > > > it might become, just stop using it.
    > > >
    > > > With all due respect Kevin, I'm pretty sure you are not the thread
    > > police.
    > > >
    > > > This directly affects SuSE users, and had there not been an uproar
    > > > we would be looking at Gnome as our principal desktop in the
    > > > next release, with the inevitable decline in support for kde.
    > >
    > > Can you point out to anyone where it was stated that Gnome was going to
    > > be the default for suse 10.x or opensuse 10.x? You wont find one
    > > anywhere because the articles stated that the change was for Novell
    > > "enterprise" products meaning SLES and NLD only.
    >
    >
    >
    > Yes, and a lot of us have said that

    Anyone official from Novell? Or can I just state that Novell is going to
    drop SuSE linux altogether and have it be accepted as gospel even though
    I have connection with Novell other than using their product?

    > with their monetary situation there will
    > be a limited amount of resources. Meaning if they get strapped for dev guys
    > and their main focus is Gnome then they will drawn away from KDE dev. I
    > guess they could just get all those who say this isn't a big deal to make
    > and test the KDE pkgs since it's not a big deal. Redhat puts more resources
    > to their Gnome offerings and they're KDE offerings blow goats. If all of you
    > who say this isn't a big deal you'd get what the bitch is.. and stop toss up
    > what they released in their PR statement. The PR statement means close to
    > ***. :)
    >
    > Oh well. I think this is the last time I try explaining this.. if SUSE does
    > start to let KDE suffer then it's quite easy for all of us that this
    > bothers.. to just jump ship.. silently. Doesn't mean much except that
    > Novell/SUSE won't get the cash I put on my pcard for boxed editions. *shrug*
    >
    > -Ben
    >
    > --
    > Atheism is a non-prophet organization. 

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Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998
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