Re: [SLE] [Fwd: [opensuse] KDE IS NOT GONE! Was Re: [opensuse] STANDARDISING ON *GNOME*!!! hOW *COULD* YOU.....!!!!]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:40:49AM -0800, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

On 11/10/05, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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If you read the Novell-speak they "are not dropping KDE entirely" which means that they ARE dropping KDE but not entirely.

KDE will be offered as "an option" - which means that if something goes wrong in KDE, anyone using KDE will be told to go and get stuffed and told to put up with the "feature/s" or switch over to gnome droppings. Note true. Note that the enterprise systems will be standardizing on GNOME (This is SLES and Novell Desktop). Open SuSE, which is the system most of us use will remain KDE. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1882118,00.asp "The entire KDE graphical interface and product family will continue to be supported and delivered on OpenSuSE," said Mancusi-Ungaro (Novell's

On Wednesday 09 November 2005 11:50 pm, Basil Chupin wrote: director of marketing for Linux).

But Jerry, you know that if they background KDE enough that they'll stop having KDE dev guys on staff. They'll stop sponsoring KDE events and other such things. Some PHB will say " Why should we support this.. our default is Gnome and we pay all these Ximian people. " " So explain to me what the cost benefit is in supporting this as much as we have in the past. " It won't be a tech decision.. it will be a marketing and sales goon decision. Pure and simple. And that's fine if they want to go that route. I'll just use Kubuntu on my desktops and SUSE w/ out X on my servers as normal. :)

I just hope Novell gains as many customers and cost savings as they think they'll get from this. It would be a shame to have SUSE go the way of the dodo bird. ;)

Oh well.. things change. I remember the HUGE uproar when SUSE killed yast1... and in my opinion that was a bigger mistake and took them a lot longer to get Yast2 up to speed. Things happen. Oh well. :)

this is slightly off topic but does anyone have any screen shots of Yast1? Or maybe an old SUSE that uses it for sale I can buy? -Allen

-Ben

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