2006/1/4, Clint Tinsley
Perhaps it was the first Novell release you used, however it was not
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 03:57 pm, Scott Jones wrote: the
first release under the Novell banner. Novell purchased SUSE in January 2004, and the first Novell-branded SUSE release was 9.1 (http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2004/suse_archive/91.html ).
Nope: My boxed set of 9.1 does not mention Novell at all. My 9.3 boxed set says Novell right on the box.
9.1 was already "In the can" and sent to duplication when the SuSE sale went down.
9.2 also has Novell on the box. Hope this ends the discussion.
9.1 was sold by Novell, 9.2 and later were branded by Novell.
Footnote to all this. I just logged into my SuSE 10 box and realized that Novell is not even on the login screen and it is only shown as a "A Novell Business" on the default wallpaper. And you all know what Novell did to WordPerfect after it bought it, took what it wanted (groupwise), and sold off what was left to Corel.
That will NOT happen this time, because: - Novell has announced to not make Netware suitable anymore for the 64 bit processors, but only as a virtual machine on SUSE. - Thereby SUSE becomes the core of the Novell business. You might say that this time Novell is dropping Netware. They are certainly not dropping SUSE. SUSE has become the successor of Netware.