On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Druid wrote:
Decisions for enterprise affects Opensuse, as Opensuse is the base for the enterprise releases. For example, if JFS is not available in the enterprise releases, chances are it wont be available in Opensuse either.
Well, that is the perfect counter example. ;-) JFS will never ever enter SUSE Linux Enterprise (again), yet it is available on openSUSE. Or take ext4, where we made the conscious decision not to push this with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, yet it is the default on openSUSE right now. openSUSE is one thing, SUSE Linux Enterprise is another. The two are certainly related, but the way decisions are being made for the two should be quite different, and is. openSUSE decisions are made by the openSUSE community (which includes a number of Novell employees like AJ, Michl or myself) and executed by the openSUSE community (which again includes a number of us paid by Novell).
It affects all the users the way I explained: some software or libraries maintained in gnome side would be buggy and affect people using the gtk software even if they arent gnome users.
I am regularily using both the GNOME and KDE sides of the house, both as desktop environment and specific applications, and will claim that both are pretty comparable on many accounts. And what you wrote above can just be mirrored to KDE and qt. Been there, done that, filed my share of bugs (both ways). Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer E gp@novell.com SUSE Linux Products GmbH Director Product Management F +49(911)74053-483 HRB 16746 (AG Nuremberg) SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, Appliances GF Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org