On Friday 11 November 2005 03:06, Andy Choens wrote:
I've installed Kubuntu on some of my machines, to test out an alternative. So far, I'm fairly pleased.
Interesting combination.
Then, to my astonishment, they GPL'd YAST. I was pleased and impressed. I perceived this as a commitment to OSS.
But this month has made me unsure if I want to stay. Novell is laying off so many people, and key SUSE people are leaving, while key Ximian people are staying.
Yup. I have some decidedly bad feelings about the recent bits of news concerning SuSE.
In contrast, Ubuntu is getting increasingly excited about KDE, and seems to have a stable professional developer community, as well as an exploding volunteer community.
I still prefer Debian, myself - and thanks to alioth, you can now get YaST for Debian. I've bought every version of SuSE since 6.2, but I think SuSE 10 may well be the last one I buy; and it might be time for me to switch my servers back to Debian. cheers, Gideon.