Re: Want to learn more about 10.1 pro and cons?

houghi wrote:

> Also what has been your
contribution to the openSUSE project? Just curious.

Of course, if you weren't part of the OpenSuse project, you have no idea of how things work... or don't work. But maybe you'd be interested to hear what Andreas Jaeger has to say about it. Maybe he's got a clue?

From: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060529#interview (excerpts)

"We decided to redesign the way we handle software and a new software management back-end, based on our "libzypp"library, which also integrated Novell's ZENworks technology. This allows us to not only manage packages but also patches, patterns and even products in an integrated way.

The decision to integrate this was made after Beta 3, instead of waiting for the next release. The work to integrate this was underestimated and, in hindsight, I would say that even at that point it was not ready to go in. But we decided that it would be better to continue the integration and also fix a couple of other areas, especially Xen.

We also got a lot of complaints about some rough edges on the package management side. The rest of the system is really excellent, the long beta phase has paid off here.

We have already fixed problems in the areas of package management ("libzypp") and Xgl, and will release updates for these and also for other packages, if needed. Most fixes are already available in our "factory" tree and will be released after additional testing for 10.1 as well. Also, we will support SUSE Linux 10.1 with security updates for two years, with the first online updates already available."

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This is as much as he was pressed to agree upon. There are obviously other problems with material detection and drivers, amongst others. Switching from 10 to 10.1 at the present time might very well be a "downdate". As you said yourself, I believe, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Installing 10.1 is accepting to run into trouble. Better wait. Who knows, Novell might have time to release Suse Linux Enterprise 10 before everything is fixed. Isn't this great news?

It's strange to see how many former Suse executives left Suse.

Suse co-founder Hubert Mantel left Novell in November following a corporate restructuring that claimed hundreds of jobs, many of them in Suse's Nuremberg headquarters. At the time, Mantel said Suse was "no longer the company I founded".

Last May saw the resignation of Richard Seibt, former chief executive of Suse and, at the time of his departure, president of Novell EMEA. Suse channel chief Petra Heinrich resigned in July to join Open-Xchange.

Two Novell executives heavily involved in Linux strategy also left the company in recent months -- vice chairman Chris Stone in November 2004 and Alan Nugent in March 2005.

Juergen Geck, former chief technology officer at Suse Linux, will leave the company at the end of this week, parent company Novell has confirmed.

Plus, former chief marketing officer Deb Bergavine recently left to pursue other interests, Novell says. Bergavine had earlier been replaced by Bill Hewitt, formerly of PeopleSoft.

Last month, Novell SUSE European channel executive Petra Heinrich resigned to take a new position at Open-Xchange

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:78s_fOKGb8kJ:www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885160,00.asp+left+%22former+suse%22&hl=fr&ct=clnk&cd=7

Of Novell’s Worldwide Management Committee, only one long-term Novell executive remains: Angie Anderson, vice president and general manager.

http://www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/PrintDoc/3BA380F5C7D32E79CC256FFC006E6F8C


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Let's now see who's remaining... not from Suse.

The most prominent executives remaining at Novell from the acquisitions of Suse and Ximian are Nat Friedman, vice president of Linux desktop engineering, and Miguel de Icaza, vice president for developer technologies -- both of whom came to Novell via Ximian.

www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;68976370;relcomp;1

Nat held the post of CEO of Ximian from 1999 to 2001 when Ximian brought in David Patrick as an external CEO after the company raised fifteen million dollars of venture capital.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Friedman

Of course, we all know about Miguel de Icaza.

So those remaining are closer to the Ximian-Gnome project. Patrick Volkerding doesn't provide Gnome anymore because fixing problems was too time consuming. Are there any conclusions to be drawned?

One can't help but to wonder if the remaining team is really where it's at.

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