Is the use of Linux more popular in Europe? Just wondering? Michael Dzikowski Support Technician The Harvard Drug Group mdzikowski@thdg.com Phone:(734)-743-6258 Fax:(734)-743-7258 -----Original Message----- From: Jorge Luis Arzola [mailto:arzolacub@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 2:47 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse] Re: KDE must stay on SuSE Hi David and everybody else: I've been reading silenly all the threads about the "gnome" thing and the unfounded "rumors" of the like...I've even seen how a user almost called stupid to those of us who fear the worst is happening to our dear suse. Ok, you may think what you like, but you will see... I remember when novel got suse: it was said to happend just then. I've been(and a lot of people in town) supporting Suse(with my mony) every 6 months, but now: It's time to support Mandriva or a fork of suse if someone makes it out from novel. Maybe Mantel will star a new distro? And do not tell this is simply paranoia. Novel has a long history of "mistakes" like this. Here we go Mandriva, novel is your best friend. hey, but do not cry. Nothing is inmortal , neither SUSE, poor thing :) :) :) jorge On 11/10/05, David Geiger <info@david-geiger.de> wrote:
PLEASE read the archive! One useless paranoia thread is really enough...
David Geiger info@david-geiger.de <mailto:info@david-geiger.de>
Ben wrote:
KDE is what make SuSE a succes, most of the SuSE users are using KDE
I think that Novell makes the biggest mistake ever. It was something that would happen. Just buy the whole thing out, change the winning formular and let it slowly bleed to dead. Its only take some time now that the new users change to Mandriva or Linspire. Probally at the end of 2006 SuSE will be a ghost from what it is now. Its a pitty, its seems to me that Novell has no vision for the future. :-(
--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org
Mike Dzikowski wrote:
Is the use of Linux more popular in Europe? Just wondering?
That's probably a safe assumption... I know a fair number of people in the IT industry in Canada, and they have yet to encounter a company/person seriously interested in using Linux. That's not an accurate cross section of North America, but... but.. I now live/work in Europe, and I bump into way more Linux users here... both on a personal home user level and in the business world. My brother (who lives in Canada) made an observation recently that slowly Linux is starting to raise itself in the collective consciousness in Canada... enough so that he's bummed a copy of SUSE10.0 from me, and fired up his first real Linux install. Interestingly, his first comment... "that wasn't as hard to install as I've been told it was" :-) Good old SUSE... I think it's found yet another convert :-) Anyway, it's kind of hard to tell if Linux is truly more popular in one place over another. My experience makes me answer Yes, but others may have found things are a bit different. C.
Mike Dzikowski wrote:
Is the use of Linux more popular in Europe? Just wondering?
More popular than where? :-) Well, assuming you meant more popular than in North America, I think probably yes. In Europe, Linux certainly seems to be used more in industry and government, and there's a lot of talk about it everywhere you go. On the other hand, some of the biggest investors are North American companies (IBM, Novell, etc.) /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.ch/ - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution.
participants (3)
-
Clayton -
Mike Dzikowski -
Per Jessen