Ben Rosenberg wrote:
On 11/4/05, Randall R Schulz
wrote: Hi,
On Friday 04 November 2005 23:23, Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Friday 04 November 2005 19:46, DC Parris wrote:
... http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1882118,00.asp This article contains a very disappointing piece of news:
"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." Disappointing indeed. Why would they do that?
Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza the Ximian Gnome Monkies who are highups in the Linux part of the company.. why else? Oh.. they also want to be " just like Redhat " in this respect. I'll bet they did some customer survey and quite a few asked about Gnome. It's all about the marketing.. don't you know. ;D
-Ben -- Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
If it's as a result of a marketing survey, it must be that they were told exactly what they needed to hear, then they ship it and customers desert them. If you want to read some interesting comments about gnome, go to www.tuxmagazine.com for Sept. issue 6. The major beef I have with gnome is that if you need to update an application, you can run into a massive dependency hell, you'll break existing apps into the bargain and your new app won't necessarily work though it installs. The garnome project which is supposed to automate gnome builds has never worked for me and by the looks of the stuff I get on the mailing list, it never will as there are an enormous number of patches daily for stuff that doesn't build, OK if all you do is building gnome. Amazingly konstruct which takes its cue from garnome but builds KDE is hardly a problem at all. If you install gnome from the distro and don't touch it, it's fine. On Solaris 10 SPARC, I thought I would try Sun's JDS (alias gnome) on an Ultra 5 and it was like wading through treacle, taking an age to do anything, so surprisingly as Sun glorified gnome, they also included a workable KDE in later builds, so I switched to KDE and appreciated just why they felt it necessary to include KDE - no doubts they had complaints about the unresponsiveness of gnome on smaller hardware footprints. Naturally Nat and Miguel think gnome is wonderful, it's their pet project along with mono which I gather in Spanish equates to "Monkey see, monkey do" and they are very upfront in their admiration for the way Microsoft does things, gnome even has a registry or so reckons Nick Petreley in one of his articles. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks