On 11/15/05, John Andersen
On Monday 14 November 2005 02:46 pm, Andre Truter wrote:
The community do not have direct influence on what happens with SLES and NLD, but I am sure that if the GNOME-centric versions comes out and it is a flop, the community should point that out also.
I hate to point out the obvious, but the "community" is one and the same as the purchasers of SLES. These are the people who recommend SLES to corporate users.
If the Community abandons SUSE (for what ever reason) then SLES will be short lived.
I meant that the community does not have a direct influence on SLES or NLD, like we have with OpenSUSE. We do, however have an indirect influence. But, then the majority of the community do not use SLES. SLES and NLD is mainly marketed by Novell, not the community. The way I see it is rather that the community use SUSE Linux or OpenSUSE and if you have influence in a corporation, then you will push SLES because it is related to SUSE Linux. Seeing that SLES is a server solution, the desktop used with it should not be an issue, as you should not even install a giu on it. Why do you want a GUI on a server? It just adds overhead. All Linux/UNIX servers that I have ever worked on does not have a monitor, keyboard or mouse conected. I nearly fell off my chair when I installed SLES for the first time and the installer asked me which desktop to install. I thought I had the NLD CD in there. I don't know why they even have the desktop choises as a default in SLES. -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~