Mike Dzikowski wrote:
Yes, I just wanted to hear some general comments on other countries usage of Linux.
SuSE hitory in France was pretty complicated at the end of the 90', SuSe was just after RedHat in term of use (My first choice in 1997). Then SuSE was dealing with problems with it's french distributor (I don't know exactly what), but the net result was the dropping of the french manual. That was the same time of Mandrake beginning to be very agressive (on distributors price list) and until Novell come, SuSE become very rare in France (very difficult to find) It was also deprecated in french LUGs because "not GPL". I always think this silly, because it was non GPL only because there where in the cd some demo non gpl things, but the suse itself was pretty near of gpl. so we face a quite difficult situation to reset. All the words about Novell firing people and stopping Kde received a ridiculous amount of echos on LUGs lists. However, I hope the OpenSuse politic will stay and SUSE grow, because it's still the best ever distribution. I gave last spring an admin course with suse 9.0 and one of my student tries to apply the same with debian and fail :-) jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net