On Sunday 20 August 2006 23:43, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 23:28 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 20 August 2006 23:20, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
OpenSuSE being open, cant the community stand together and change the package manager to something that works? Or am I misinformed about the open source process?
Well, all distros end up having to make some decisions about what is in and what is out, and having some control of that.
I suspect that in order to get rid of zmd/rug etc and revert to Yast/YOU you would have to fork it and call it HvdW Linux which would be CaPiTaLiZeD just as weirdly as SuSE to the english speakers... ;-)
<Confused> Whats the use of Open_Whatever distros? Who controls it?
Novell controls it. Just like Red Hat controls Fedora. "OpenSuSE" is a Marketing Droid's invention, a necessary step toward making Monetizing SUSE Linux for Novell, by giving away SuSE and disavowing any support responsibility, foisting that responsibility onto "the community". Its a test bed for the higher priced Commercial distribution, SuSe Linux Enterprise Server and Desktop. But You and I have as much chance of making a change to the distro's package management stack as we do of replacing Kim Il Jung. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen