On 3/30/06, Ken Schneider <suse-list2@bout-tyme.net> wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 12:21 +0530, Harikrishnan T wrote:
But let us study the signs of times:
1.
Novell is loosing money. This, in spite of having *the best* Linux distro to sell. Their nearest competitor is making money and holding
on to
80% of the market with one of the most lousiest distros. 2.
SUSE co-founders and lead developers are leaving Novell in hordes. One of them left yesterday. Some of them have criticized Novell for mishandling SUSE. 3.
Novel decides to make Gnome the default desktop. They say it only for the Enterprise version. Not for SUSE Pro. This astonishes us. Something that is good for your Enterprise version, but not good enough for Pro? We always thought SUSE Pro and SLES were the same product with different support bundles. Now they will have different philosophies too.
SLES = Suse Linux Enterprise Server - The server product
NLD = Novell Linux Desttop - The desktop product, the one that is having Gnome as the default desktop.
Confusion reigns. Some bits from Novell PR Blog "There has been a lot of debate over the last few days in the media and on message boards about what is happening regarding GNOME vs. KDE at Novell. Here's the situation. All future enterprise-class Linux product releases, including Novell Linux Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Novell Open Enterprise Server, will continue to ship with both the GNOME and KDE desktop environments. In upcoming versions of Novell enterprise applications, the default desktop environment will be GNOME. When customers install Novell Linux products, they will be given the option to choose either the GNOME or KDE environment during the installation process. If the user makes no explicit choice, GNOME will be installed." See http://www.novell.com/prblogs/index.php?title=kde_and_gnome&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 SLES = Suse Linux Enterprise Server - The server product - Gnome default. NLD = Novell Linux Desttop - The desktop product - Gnome default. SUSE Pro/Open SUSE - Desktop product - ??????? Default Again from Novell PR Blog (same URL) "This decision has very little impact on either the openSUSE project or future versions of SUSE Linux. SUSE Linux will continue to showcase the newest open source desktop, development, and server technologies in a complete, stabilized operating system. SUSE Linux will continue to deliver both the GNOME and the KDE desktop environments along with the latest open source packages for those environments." No mention of the default. Bye -- One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -- Elbert Hubbard