2010/6/1 Roger Oberholtzer
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 13:32 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:50:23PM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
had to recognize that there seems to be very few interest in offering NCL on openSUSE (even though the most apparent thing missing is a proper repo building NCL against openSUSE distributions... but for licensing reasons, this seems not to be welcome on OBS... I can tell you the full story if you're interested.. but 'offline').
I can understand it not being available with the base release. But if you can include Adobe or nvidia drivers, this seems not to be so very different. We have thousands of users running the NCW on XP. It is so frustrating to not be able to do the same with a Linux so closely related to Novell.
The SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 Service PAck 1 now has Novel Client for Linux included.
Is there a way to evaluate SLED11? We currently buy/use openSUSE 10.3 as our platform. We are hoping to move to 11.2 (unresolved KDE4 issues have slowed that process). Perhaps we should be looking at SLED instead. We do install the OS very seldom, and want to use the install for a long time. I think it is mainly the developers (like me...) that prefer to work on openSUSE as it uses the latest stuff. You know us crazy developers. The downside of SLED in our product is that we would want to limit our developers to using the same. Perhaps that is too draconian. But we strongly believe that developers should be very close to the users.
The odd thing is that I think the cost of SLED is pretty much the same as openSUSE. I guess with SLED you can also choose to pay each year for support and updates, which is where the cost difference compared to buying openSUSE factors in. But it is not so big a difference. Does that sound right?
As for openSUSE ... Was there ever a FATE entry for this? Without involving our product management folks Michael Loeffler or Andreas Jaeger it wont see any kind of progress.
And even then I am not so sure.
Ciao, Marcus
-- Roger Oberholtzer
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Hmm, who sold you openSUSE?. SLED has a standard support contract of $120 for a year. Check it at http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/howtobuy.html. It's also available for download freely, so you can test it before buying. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org