what will happen to KDE on Suse...
...now that Novell has purchased Suse? Eweek predicts Novell will switch to Gnome from KDE, since Ximian is written in Gnome. This concerns me, since I like KDE better. Any thoughts/info on this?
Am Dienstag, 25. November 2003 20:02 schrieb Eric Jahn:
...now that Novell has purchased Suse? Eweek predicts Novell will switch to Gnome from KDE, since Ximian is written in Gnome. This concerns me, since I like KDE better. Any thoughts/info on this?
Well, nobody knows for sure. But SuSE Distribution always was so premium, because whatever SuSE set as "default" could be changed anytime. You can use Gnome as default in recent SuSE releases too, you only have to choose. And if Gnome would be default, then you only would have to choose KDE. But personally I don't think that the SuSE distribution will be changed in any direction except forward. Novell will take SuSE Know-How to use it for other projects beside the distribution. Anything else would be counterproductive. But this is rather off-topic, so I suggest to stop this here, because there can only be thousands of thoughts and presumptions but no facts. The only one to give facts is SuSE and SuSE will give facts as soon as they can. But thats only a presumption, too... See what I mean? Greets, Daniel
To ALL: I would not worry about Novell trying to buy Suse, as SCO is tying them up in court. Seems like SCO says it has priority on any buying of SuSe, for some reason. Wish I knew the whole story and what is the most likely outcome! :-( -- Old Sarge, prefer using voice dictation because of my arthritis!
"trying to buy"? They _have bought_ SuSE. SCO did not do any steps against SUSE (yet). If this has a connetcion can only be guessed. Greets, Daniel P.S.: Hmmmm, stopping this thread is harder than I thought... Am Dienstag, 25. November 2003 21:14 schrieb Old Sarge:
To ALL: I would not worry about Novell trying to buy Suse, as SCO is tying them up in court. Seems like SCO says it has priority on any buying of SuSe, for some reason. Wish I knew the whole story and what is the most likely outcome! :-( -- Old Sarge, prefer using voice dictation because of my arthritis!
Anyone who wants to sell SuSE editions in Germany will have to stick to KDE. As far as German is concerned - there's a very good localisation. Germans don't like programs partly or totally in other languages. That's why most of them like KDE. And what's even more important: the government likes KDE. They support some projects concerning groupware and security (Kolab, Ägypten) Does anybody expect them to buy an edition prefering Gnome? The market is just going open- München (munich) will switch the whole of their PCs to SuSE in March. IBM will give a hint to Novell that they want to sell some big machines working in a linux network... have a lot of hope Michael Eichstädt Am Dienstag, 25. November 2003 21:33 schrieb Daniel Eckl:
"trying to buy"?
They _have bought_ SuSE.
SCO did not do any steps against SUSE (yet). If this has a connetcion can only be guessed.
Greets, Daniel
P.S.: Hmmmm, stopping this thread is harder than I thought...
Am Dienstag, 25. November 2003 21:14 schrieb Old Sarge:
To ALL: I would not worry about Novell trying to buy Suse, as SCO is tying them up in court. Seems like SCO says it has priority on any buying of SuSe, for some reason. Wish I knew the whole story and what is the most likely outcome! :-( -- Old Sarge, prefer using voice dictation because of my arthritis!
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