On 11/5/05, Janne Karhunen <Janne.Karhunen@gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday 05 November 2005 12:05, Andre Truter wrote:
1) Is it mentioned anywhere that SLES and NLD will *NOT* include KDE anymore?
"The entire KDE graphical interface and product family will continue to be supported and delivered on OpenSuSE," said Mancusi-Ungaro.
On opensuse, not on the others.
No, that paragraph does not state that KDE will be supported only on OpenSUSE, it only states that the *entire* KDE graphical interface .... will be supported on OpenSUSE. There is nothing that says that KDE will NOT be supported on NLD or SLES, they only mention that the focus of SLES and NLD will more towards GNOME. "Novell is making one large strategic change. The GNOME interface is going to become the default interface on both the SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) and Novell Linux Desktop line. KDE libraries will be supplied on both, but the bulk of Novell's interface moving forward will be on GNOME. " It says that GNOME will be the *default*, not the *only* desktop. Huge difference between 'default' and 'only'
2) Are you talking about SUSE or SLES or NLD? 3) What does the article say about OpenSUSE
Enterprise offering shows the way, it does not matter. Rest is just management jargon to try to cover this up.
I gather that you do not understand the OpenSUSE project and that you also did not read the email from Adreas Jeager. But if you want to beleive that KDE will die a horrible death in SUSE then go ahead. People also beleived that Novell will kill SUSE when they bought it, just as people beleived that disaster will strike on 1 Jan 2000 due to the 'milenium bug'. All I say is: Read the article in its context and do not panic about assumptions that you make. (The article is actually about roumers of Linux developers getting sacked - mostly GNOME-related at that: mono, evolution and general desktop) If Novell/SUSE announce that NLD 10 or SLES 10 will not include KDE and only have GNOME, then I would say: Okay, maybe time to panic. If they anounce that SUSE Linux will not include KDE anymore, then I would say : PANIC! And if the OpenSUSE project announce that KDE will not be supported anymore then I would say: Did the KDE project die or something? -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~