2009/3/5 Peter Poeml <poeml@suse.de>:
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:47:47AM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
On Thursday 05 March 2009 06:13:51 member greenarrow1 wrote:
[...] I have been reading articles recently about Novell specifically their financial condition and, of course, OpenSUSE. I to am beginning to wonder where OpenSUSE lies with Novell and are we just test subjects for their improvement of SLED and SLES. Is Novell trying to get
You get everything in openSUSE that is in SLED and SLES as well (unless it's closed source software that is not freely redistributable). openSUSE 11.1 contains already nearly everything that SLE{D,S}11 will have and those things that are missing (since SLE gets released later) might hit openSUSE 11.1 as updates or have been added to the factory tree targetting openSUSE 11.2.
openSUSE is an own distribution where we make also changes that are not needed for SLE at all but are needed for the openSUSE community.
"also changes that are not needed for SLE" - alright. But what about *conflicting* changes?
(Totally naive question. I can't actually think of an example right now, I'm more conceiving that such conflicts could arise)
I can. Multimedia support..... Novell is run under US. Patent laws. This definitely reduces the distributions usefulness for a lot of non-nerd users. Also Yast for media-server, home server etc. is not on SLE's list I guess. But should definitely be on the openSUSE Yast implementation. Birger -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org