On Monday 14 November 2005 21:14, John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 14 November 2005 03:16 am, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
Can all this Novell FUD be taken off-list, please? If you don't like SUSE, or fear what it might become, just stop using it.
With all due respect Kevin, I'm pretty sure you are not the thread police.
But my comment still stands.
This directly affects SuSE users, and had there not been an uproar we would be looking at Gnome as our principal desktop in the next release, with the inevitable decline in support for kde.
No ... take a deep breath, calm down, and read what Novell actually said. There has been no uproar, just a few people posting the same thing over and over, which is getting very tiresome for those of us who like using SUSE rather than inventing conspiracy theories about it. If people put as much effort into learning how to package things for openSUSE (a la Pascal Bleser) as they do into wibbling on about this, we would all be a lot better off.
This attempted change already cost Novel the principal developer of SuSE, and if you think that is a non-issue you are crazy. Mantel was a major asset, and the fact that he was driven away by a bunch of Gnome bigots within Novel does not bode well for SuSE.
This is speculation, and possibly libellous speculation at that. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - Meddalwedd Rhydd yn Gymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD