Marcus Meissner wrote:
10.0 will be in both versions. A retail box (SUSE Linux 10.0) and the OSS version (openSUSE 10.0).
Is there really going be such a name in nomenclature? I mean, will I get my bootup/GRUB/splashscreens saying openSUSE?
SUSE Linux 10.0 will have the shiny box and handbooks and the non-OSS packages (and perhaps more benefits I do not know right now).
non-OSS packages means stuff like Java or stuff like something Novell has created themselves closed-source?
In the future, both openSUSE and SUSE Linux will diverge more, once we get to Stage2 or Stage3 of the openSUSE project.
I thought that the thing Novell will be marketing is the Enterprise Server, and has released the Maybe I'm extending the Red Hat - Fedora model too much in a way that Novell didn't intend for SuSE [if so I'd like to be informed! :)] but: The product that was once a single Red Hat got divided into two: Red Hat Enterprise Linux which is a closed project, tested and developed by Red Hat employees (and official betas) for 18 months before release. It's not available freely for download to the public but is still under the GPL insofar as the source code is technically "available" (to those who pay Red Hat money for the sustenance of their employees). Fedora is an open project, tested and developed by the public and released every so often. It's available freely for download to the public, both the source and the binary. Nobody needs to pay anybody. Some stuff I learnt at http://www.redhat.com/software/rhelorfedora/. But one more important difference I thought I understood is that: RHEL can include proprietary stuff like Java etc, since Red Hat can formally license them from their makers like Sun etc. And Fedora cannot include such things, since Fedora is public, and who'll pay Sun for the license? At least, I'm told this is the way it is with Debian which is a totally open project. I think Fedora might have Java, though I'm not sure. But returning to Novell's SuSE and openSUSE, I'm a bit confused: Novell provides something called 1. SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 2. SuSE Linux Professional 3. Novell Linux Desktop And now to that openSUSE is added. AFAI understand openSUSE is an offshoot of [2] SuSE Linux Professional. Is Novell still going to *separately* develop SuSE Linux Professional? (Red Hat does not develop anything other than RHEL, AFAIK.) -- Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org