Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

[Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Onsdag 02 august 2006 16:37 skrev SOTL:
> Any way these are some thoughts on why SuSE is going the route of Red Hat.

I've made similar points to the article before: that having a good home-user 
product is strategically important to get into the enterprise. And that is 
the reason why Mark Shuttleworth has invested in shipping cds all over the 
place (I think there must be more doo-doo-brown Ubuntu cds than there are 
computers on this planet).

However I agree with the decision by Novell concerning binary-only 
kernel-modules - and before long Ubuntu will probably (hopefully) be forced 
to make the same decision.

I think you're way too fast with claims of SUSE going the Red Hat route. 

Most of us agree that 10.1 has been horrific all in all. But this is only 
_one_ release. Wait and see if 10.2 won't be the greatest distro - or should 
we say the greatest OS - ever.. It has all the possibility in the world to 
become so. If 10.2 is screwed up too _then_ we have a problem.

And look at the 10.1 problems - apart from the kernel module decision - all 
the problems had one reason: (testing for) SLED. Fortunately SLED has a two 
year release cycle and thus won't screw up our distro again - at least for a 
while.

Give (open)SUSE the benefit of the doubt - at least until 10.2 - and I'm sure 
you'll see your conclusions are wrong.

Martin / cb400f

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