Sandy Drobic <suse-linux-e@japantest.homelinux.com> writes:
What this means they want to concentrate their effort and manpower on the more lucrative Enterprise Edition. The community version will be aimed at Linux enthusiasts, not at the casual user at home who wants a Windows that has the name Linux. In short they have given up the idea of selling Linux as a replacement for users of Windows.
This is not true. We will continue to sell SUSE Linux and target the home users. We just want to do it better ;-)
The consequences of this is that they will probably not spend as much effort as now to ensure a distribution with as few problems as possible. They will use more recent versions of software with the expectation that bugs will be discovered and hopefully even fixed by the community. If a software version has been thoroughly tested, cursed and fixed until it runs stable and reliable it will then be included in the Enterprise Edition. You can compare it to the "stable" and "development" versions of software.
No, since we will release a SUSE Linux product, we will take care to make a version that is as stable as it is now.
That is the community part. I only hope they will reduce the price of the box accordingly if they aren't even willing to call it "Professional" any more. Also timely ftp versions would be appreciated. I'll wait and see if they will reduce the support time to one year as Redhat has done for the community version.
There's no change, we stay with two years of security updates, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126