Martin Schlander wrote:
Onsdag 02 august 2006 16:37 skrev SOTL:
Any way these are some thoughts on why SuSE is going the route of Red Hat.
I've made similar points to the article before: that having a good home-user product is strategically important to get into the enterprise. And that is the reason why Mark Shuttleworth has invested in shipping cds all over the place (I think there must be more doo-doo-brown Ubuntu cds than there are computers on this planet).
However I agree with the decision by Novell concerning binary-only kernel-modules - and before long Ubuntu will probably (hopefully) be forced to make the same decision.
I think you're way too fast with claims of SUSE going the Red Hat route.
Most of us agree that 10.1 has been horrific all in all. But this is only _one_ release. Wait and see if 10.2 won't be the greatest distro - or should we say the greatest OS - ever.. It has all the possibility in the world to become so. If 10.2 is screwed up too _then_ we have a problem.
And look at the 10.1 problems - apart from the kernel module decision - all the problems had one reason: (testing for) SLED. Fortunately SLED has a two year release cycle and thus won't screw up our distro again - at least for a while.
Give (open)SUSE the benefit of the doubt - at least until 10.2 - and I'm sure you'll see your conclusions are wrong.
Martin, SOTL doesn't talk about himself and what he mentioned is the problem. Is this right place to complain? Probably not, but it is obvious that is asking for attention. Kernel developers did what they had to do, but now there is important empty space that has to be filled. It is not their duty to develop drivers for any company, but those that make money from working solution, and loose if it doesn't, should put more effort in this. Would be that helping original vendor to find time to develop user space driver, or something else, it's up to decision makers. Long time SUSE users will not leave without long stretch of "mistakes" and for sure it is not enough one release to disappoint them, but everyone involved should think of this: Anyone has "My list of companies that I will not deal with, because they sold me a lemon", and it is a place that is hard to leave. There is so many choices, even ubiquitous vendors are not excused forever. It doesn't help to make money if you land there. Perception that SUSE Linux (now openSUSE) is accepted as a playground is correct, but it was never a sandbox where you can break things at will. Free SUSE Linux was long time the same as professional and enterprise editions, just missing support and couple of commercial packages. The name change of SUSE Linux to openSUSE changes nothing in perception, it is still SUSE. -- Regards, Rajko. Visit http://en.opensuse.org/MiniSUSE --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org