I think we can put all the speculations to end. At KDE DOT,
http://dot.kde.org/1097096753/
there is an interview with Chris Schlaeger of SuSE. He is Vice
President of Research and Development SUSE Linux at Novell. Here is
the question and the answer about this exact same topic.
Question:
Not long ago Novell acquired two companies that deal with Linux:
Ximian and SUSE. While Ximian is a derivative from the GNOME project,
SUSE is well known for its support of KDE. How does this all come
together?
Answer:
"Better than most people seem to believe. Novell is committed to
supporting both GNOME and KDE desktop environments in its Linux
desktop. We are fortunate to have acquired a robust set of desktop
technologies through our acquisitions of Ximian and SUSE LINUX, giving
our customers a considerable amount of choice.
We are working on our next generation Enterprise Desktop currently
called Novell Linux Desktop which will feature a KDE desktop as well
as a GNOME desktop. In the enterprise market the situation is still
very open regarding which desktop will have the greater following. For
a Linux provider like Novell it is a great opportunity to offer both
desktops to our customers and see where the market is going."
Osho
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:35:39 -0700, C. Richard Matson
On Monday 04 October 2004 10:08 pm, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 14:18, C. Richard Matson wrote:
It's that my local LUG was Red Hat-Gnome to the core. They also still like using the command line. Now Red Hat is out of favor and they don't like Novell owning SuSE. They want Linux to beat out Windows, but they don't want the changes that are making it competitive, and usable by the average person. Rich
Fortunately they are in a position to use what they do like and avoid what they don't like. I think this is one of Linux's strength, the underpinnings (i.e. kernel and tools) are there to be used how you want, cli or gui of choice.
You are right about the choice. Earlier in this thread I commented that SuSE ships with several other GUI's (14 if I counted right) in addition to KDE and Gnome. I also referred to myself as being the Lone Stranger. And I was just elaborating on that in my above remarks. For most people computers (and their OS's) are a means to an end, not an end in itself. For them the Linux is the equivalent of MSDOS. I think KDE serves that purpose better that any of them. Rich
-- Rich Matson Reno, Nv. USA
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