Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Gideon Hallett <diogenes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 11 November 2005 03:06, Andy Choens wrote:
> I've installed Kubuntu on some of my machines, to test out an
> alternative.  So far, I'm fairly pleased.
>

> Interesting combination.
>
> Then, to my astonishment, they GPL'd YAST.  I was pleased and
> impressed.  I perceived this as a commitment to OSS.
>
> But this month has made me unsure if I want to stay.  Novell is
> laying off so many people, and key SUSE people are leaving, while
> key Ximian people are staying.

Yup. I have some decidedly bad feelings about the recent bits of news 
concerning SuSE.

> In contrast, Ubuntu is getting increasingly excited about KDE, and
> seems to have a stable professional developer community, as well as
> an exploding volunteer community.

I still prefer Debian, myself - and thanks to alioth, you can now get 
YaST for Debian.

I've bought every version of SuSE since 6.2, but I think SuSE 10 may 
well be the last one I buy; and it might be time for me to switch my 
servers back to Debian.

 cheers,

   Gideon.