Ed Scott wrote:
Thoughts on LinuxWord: * SuSE's movie was pretty awful. * The SuSE 7 demo almost made up for the movie - SuSE's new Yast 2 should make it one of the easiest distros to install and configure - very nice! * Sun, HP, Compaq, Dell, et al announced support for the GNOME desktop at the show - Miguel's Helix Evolution looks like a very useful email client - GNOME Office will consist of Sun StarOffice+Evolution email - it seems likely that Sun and others will adopt GNOME office once Evolution is solid - How does all this impact SuSE and its KDE support?
It doesn't. Why would it? Why would we care at all who uses Gnome and who uses KDE? Why do so many people ask us such questions? We ship both GNome and KDE. Just because KDE is the default if you don't press any buttons doesn't mean we're somehow artificially bound to KDE. We've a few KDE developers, and we've got one or two Gnome developers (meaning the core-developers each time). Why does anyone think we've a problem if either one grabs the headlines from time to time? It's both opensource stuff!!! Seems to be American mentality that some people cannot imagine several winners, that always seomeone needs to be declare the looser. Both KDE and Gnome are alive and well, and the major difference in their competition from what we're used to is they both run each others stuff just fine. Because this is so, who cares what anyone happens to start as their desktop? One click of the mouse button at KDM-login time changes the default, and you can run all programs anywhere, so what is the problem???
// I think GNOME's move to leapfrog KDE Office by adopting many parts of StarOffice was a smart move. StarOffice needs only a little work on import and export of file formats to be a competitive alternative to MS Office. Helix Evolution and an eventual calendar tool of similar design, far exceed MS Office capability. I am thinking about trying GNOME again. Comments?
When I looked at their presentation it seemed to me they're trying to build an Outlook for Linux. That's a good idea, but it means it can impossibly "far exceed MS Office", your words. Oh well, yes, ok, it exceeds MS Office, since Outlook is not part of MS Office, but it's part of any standard MS installation. -- Michael Hasenstein http://www.suse.de/~mha/ SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg (Germany) SuSE Inc., Oakland, California (US) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq