On 09/11/05, Bjorn Tore Sund
If I don't get a guarantee from SuSE/Novell (yes, I'm using other channels as well) that the SuSE KDE modifications and configurations will stay maintained at at least the same level as today, we're most likely dropping OpenSuSE and consequently SLES and ZenWorks. We have our final meeting tomorrow morning, we _might_ decide to just postpone our decision if I it seems likely that the guarantee is just a bit late. But sometime next week the analysis process will be restarted and RedHat/Fedora is a likely winner because of commercial software support - and then other alternatives for client management open up as well and will be looked closer at.
Panicking? No. Frustrated? Yes. We don't have a problem, but would much rather this nonsense hadn't started to appear. But Novell is doing their best to loose business, and though we're only one small university I can't imagine that we're the only ones taking a step back to consider alternatives. SuSE's big advantage has been that they're _different_, the more like RedHat they try to be the less reason is there to choose SuSE over RedHat.
-BT --
I'm sorry Bjorn, but this does not make sense. Red Hat/Fedora have Gnome as the default already so why move to them when you already know the SuSE system. How can SuSE be getting more like RH/Fedora anyway? SuSE is not based on RH (as many other distros are) it was initially based on the Slackware distro and is now sufficiently different to warrant being termed a distro in its own right rather than a fork of course. I just do not see how it can get to be like RH/Fedora. Unless I've missed something here... -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR