Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

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On Monday 07 November 2005 22:44, Curtis Rey wrote:
> On Mon November 7 2005 22:12, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
>
> This was the fear I had when Novell bought SuSE.  And it isn't as if this
> is a complete shock.  I mean Novell did buy Ximian.  But Mr Perens is
> qouted in eWeek as follows:
>
> "The latest KDE snub came last month, when open-source mover Bruce Perens
> announced that he'd chosen to exclude KDE in favor of GNOME from the
> forthcoming enterprise-aimed, community-led UserLinux distribution."
>
> Gotta love those Corporate power games....  For the love of the CIO!
>
> All I have to say is try taking Joe User and tell him to change the fonts
> in KDE, then tell him to change the fonts in Gnome.  Which do think he'll
> have more success doing?   Three guesses and the first two don't count!
>
> And if that isn't enough try setting up dual monitors in Gnome... Like I
> said it freaking PUKES all over the place.  In KDE it took me 3 mouse
> clicks.
>
> I'd hate to put SuSE on the shelf, but it Novell goes the way of RH that's
> just where it's going.

I really hate to agree, but I do.
Jerome
>
> Curtis.  :/