* Fergus Wilde;
Clearly the IT marketplace is as slippery as an eel that's just been coated in extra slippy jelly, but I would be grateful for some little announcement from a bona fide suse person about how they see this fitting with the non-business market, i.e. both home/hobby users and education, charity, non-profit, government.
ul-presentation states * High quality business Linux * Based on LSB, LiN18ux standards * Best practices from four top leaders in the industry * IA32/ 64 server focused, support of IBM eServer product line * IT industry commitment * Global certification on Hardware and Software from major industry players * A global partnership * North & South America, EMEA & Asia Pac * Support and services in local languages So based on the above, I would basicly create a barebone distro where everything is working under the LSB and FSH standards. This barebone distro would basicly meet the needs for certification needs (Oracle, SAP and other major players). If you have noticed the presentation mentions IA32/64 server focused so my understanding is what every parter of the joint effort has as *Enterprise Edition* is from know on will be United Linux. Every parter of UL will then create their own specialized products ie SUSE Email Server version XYZ Powered by United Linux or SuSE Groupware powered by United Linux. Hence there will be diversity on every partner's product. The underlying is United Linux but I would guess SuSE's new products which will be powered by United Linux will sitill have YAST2 (otherwise time and money spend on YaST2 would be wasted) So to sum it up what will be available I would guess will be just a bare distro which can be adapted to any need. And no they are not aiming home/hobby users as that is not where the money is in my opinion. Home, hobby users always want to try the latest but when it comes to invest money then bla bla starts and most want free beer so why bother would be my approach. Also think how many members of this very list is actually running Linux as the only OS on their PC and using Linux for desktop activities without Wine, Codeweaver or similar products. -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx