On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, houghi wrote:
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 11:16:33AM -0500, Langsley wrote:
When I first learned of openSUSE I assumed it would be somewhat similar to the Fedora/Red Hat offerings. That is, that there would be two separate and distinct distros. I don't see how one can have two separate distros with one name.
There are two names and distro's : openSUSE and Novell SUSE. Also look at http://www.opensuse.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions
... it's the openSUSE _project_ and SUSE Linux / SUSE Linux OSS. Novell puts SUSE Linux into retail and drives/sponsors the development of SUSE Linux.
Is there now a genuine community distro of SUSE or is the download version simply like other download versions of commercial distros?
The comunity one is openSUSE 10.0 RC1. The `official` one is SUSE 9.3.
openSUSE 10.0 is inexistent. It's SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS, which will very soon supersede the "stable release" SUSE Linux Professional 9.3.
That is, basicly a less complete (for lack of a better term) version of the commercial product.
Less complete in what way? Indeed some programs will not be included in openSUSE due to licencing. Others will not be available in the Novell SUSE version.
All this is still in the making. At this moment I think we are in the process of forming the openSUSE comunity and SUSE and openSUSE will be almost identical. Wether this will also be in the future will depend on the comunity, I think.
Yes, but: s/openSUSE/SUSE Linux OSS/ ;)) Regards Christoph