And I am a bit upset that they change their kernel so much that some of these applications will not compile on their kernel.
AFAIK, SUSE is working towards a mostly-vanilla kernel, and have already reduced the number of extra patches considerably.
Yep, I have heard that SUSE kernels will be vanilla and for installing modules the "rpm" system would be used as for packages - which I believe is the right way to go. I hope, that Vanilla kernels will include more fnctionality built-in.
Or if anyone is using GFS on SuSe let me know what you did.
I have only looked at it so far, but I find it very difficult to accept that SUSEs kernel modifications would prevent GFS from building.
If the GFS is so great, why not include a GFS inside SUSE Linux 10.2 ? What OSes include GFS on DVD right now ? FC4/5 and RHEL4 ?