On 11/7/06, Chuck Davis
I've looked at Kubuntu a bit and one thing is for sure, there's better support for KDE! I've never had a SuSE KDE update that didn't get into dependency hell and/or screw up my install. There's never been one that worked in my experience. It looks like Kubuntu gets KDE versions up for update quite quickly. It's looking like a more attractive option all the time. Since I think mono is a collossal waste of effort and GNOME likewise, I think Novell will be looking less and less attractive as time goes.
Suse/SUSE has been a good ride though and I'm going to miss YaST2. It is, however, as I understand, open source now so perhaps the Germans who started SUSE will get back together and start something new that will take the place of the dependable distro we all loved.
Unlikely as it is, Novell, Red Hat, Sun and Oracle certainly leave room for hp or IBM or somebody to create a KDE based distro and as the suits like to say, "Let the market decide."
Chuck
I tried Ubuntu (I prefer Gnome) and like it a lot. Has not broken on me yet. Also gave the kid Edubuntu. Lots of fun in the household. Whatever come out of this MS & Novell episode, this will be a huge blow to Linux in the enterprise in the end.