Press release from Novell about KDE/Gnome
I've just got this in a newsletter direct form Novell. It should ease everybody's mind...I hope. KDE and GNOME 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. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
Wednesday 30 November 2005 16:18 samaye Kevanf1 alekhiit:
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.
So is that all - the final result of the big debate on both this list and opensuse? SUSE will have GNOME as the default environment. That's all. I hope the specialized SUSE KDE package will still continue to ship. And the Novell OOo KDE package also? Any SUSE people can shed light on this? Shriramana.
Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com> writes:
Wednesday 30 November 2005 16:18 samaye Kevanf1 alekhiit:
Don't know where this comes from and whether this is complete. But it speaks about enterprise products.
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.
So is that all - the final result of the big debate on both this list and opensuse? SUSE will have GNOME as the default environment. That's all. I hope
For SUSE Linux versions, there will be no changes, no default will be set.
the specialized SUSE KDE package will still continue to ship. And the Novell OOo KDE package also?
We do continue to invest in both GNOME and KDE and therefore the items you mentioned are supported, 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
On 30/11/05, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> wrote:
Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com> writes:
Wednesday 30 November 2005 16:18 samaye Kevanf1 alekhiit:
Don't know where this comes from and whether this is complete. But it speaks about enterprise products.
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.
So is that all - the final result of the big debate on both this list and opensuse? SUSE will have GNOME as the default environment. That's all. I hope
For SUSE Linux versions, there will be no changes, no default will be set.
the specialized SUSE KDE package will still continue to ship. And the Novell OOo KDE package also?
We do continue to invest in both GNOME and KDE and therefore the items you mentioned are supported,
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
I received it this morning as part of an official Novell newsletter. It mentioned desktop SuSe so I felt that it was relevant to the recent 'debate' we have had on here :-) -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
Kevanf1 <kevanf1@gmail.com> writes:
I received it this morning as part of an official Novell newsletter. It mentioned desktop SuSe so I felt that it was relevant to the recent 'debate' we have had on here :-)
desktop meaning NLD, 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
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 07:25, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
We do continue to invest in both GNOME and KDE and therefore the items you mentioned are supported,
And of course that is what really is at issue. Simply making the KDE available has never been an issue for me. Even if the KDE were not included in the distribution, I could always build it, so long as it was being developed - and I had enough horsepower. I will leave it at that. Some people understand the more subtle points on this issue, and some do not. It would only cause problems to continue dwelling on this matter. Thanks for the clarification. Steven
Man it's about time. I got tired of trying to explain how default can have more than one meaning. This exact message should be put in the FAQs, and sent to this list once a month. Everyone saying they are leaving because Gnome is default... I mean wow I understand their pain of having to click on KDE during install.... And man am I old today. It's my 23rd Birthday today... nyway back on topic: The people who downloaded and din't pay for crap saying they were going to stop usng it, I TRIED to tell you, it's enterprise stuff only, not the home user stuff. -Allen
On 30/11/05, boricua <boricua@despiertapr.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:28 am, Allen wrote:
Man it's about time. I got tired of trying to explain how default can have more than one meaning. where is it
Check the first post. I put a link to the full release on the Novell website in there. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:28:56 -0500 Allen <gorebofh@comcast.net> wrote:
Man it's about time. I got tired of trying to explain how default can have more than one meaning.
This exact message should be put in the FAQs, and sent to this list once a month. Everyone saying they are leaving because Gnome is default... I mean wow I understand their pain of having to click on KDE during install....
And man am I old today. It's my 23rd Birthday today...
nyway back on topic:
The people who downloaded and din't pay for crap saying they were going to stop usng it, I TRIED to tell you, it's enterprise stuff only, not the home user stuff.
-Allen
THIS IS THE FIRST POST AND I DONT SEE THE LINK
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:31:04AM -0500, boricua wrote:
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:28:56 -0500 Allen <gorebofh@comcast.net> wrote:
Man it's about time. I got tired of trying to explain how default can have more than one meaning.
This exact message should be put in the FAQs, and sent to this list once a month. Everyone saying they are leaving because Gnome is default... I mean wow I understand their pain of having to click on KDE during install....
And man am I old today. It's my 23rd Birthday today...
nyway back on topic:
The people who downloaded and din't pay for crap saying they were going to stop usng it, I TRIED to tell you, it's enterprise stuff only, not the home user stuff.
-Allen
THIS IS THE FIRST POST AND I DONT SEE THE LINK
This is NOT the first post caps boy. I sent a REPLY. -Allen.
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