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Re: major distros?
by Tom on Sunday 08/Aug/2004, @07:41
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Look out for an interview I'll be publishing soon with Waldo Bastian, a SuSE employee :-)
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Re: major distros?
by LMCBoy on Monday 09/Aug/2004, @06:07
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Is this going to be on the dot, or elsewhere?
thanks,
Jason
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Re: major distros?
by max on Sunday 08/Aug/2004, @07:45
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SUSE does not shift to Gnome. They are using KDE for SUSE Linux 9.2 by default and will do so in the future as well
The Novell Linux Desktop (which is targeted at business users while SUSE Linux Personal and Professional will be targeted at the common user) might be released next year and will let you choose between KDE and Gnome.
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Re: major distros?
by a.c. on Sunday 08/Aug/2004, @09:19
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Good idea.
I like choices. It is either between distros or it is between desktops.
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Re: major distros?
by huu on Sunday 08/Aug/2004, @09:26
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While choice may be a great thing for the common nerd, not too many corporations appreciate it. It just makes matters more complex, and thus, more expensive.
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Re: major distros?
by David on Sunday 08/Aug/2004, @10:28
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What Novell want to do here is give corporations a look at what is on offer, and make a decision based on a variety of needs.
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Re: major distros?
by Aaron J. Seigo on Sunday 08/Aug/2004, @11:44
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of course. however not every corporation chooses the same technologies for various reasons (some good, some not so good). because an OS is not a final product for one specific person, group or company, the whole "companies will only use one thing internally anyways" argument is bunk as a reason to limit choice as to what is available.
as long as interoperability and Freedom are maintained at the highest levels, then allowing entities to choose what works best for them (and then stick to it for as long as they wish) is a great selling point. it offers "best fit" scenarios, built-in (friendly) competition and a failsafe (if one desktop stops meeting our needs......)
a good analogy may be gleaned from asking yourself why there are so many different types of vehicles on the road (sedan, coup, SUV, pickup truck, semi, etc).
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Re: major distros?
by Anon on Sunday 08/Aug/2004, @08:14
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I really don't think that they going to do that. Though SuSE allows to run both GNOME and KDE it is mainly a KDE distribution. I would assume that at least 90% of the SuSE Linux users are running KDE on their desktop and I'm pretty sure that most of them don't want to miss it. So if Novell would force SuSE to switch from KDE to Ximian GNOME as the default desktop choice they would risk to loose a significant portion of their customers. On the other hand Novell not only bought the KDE company SuSE they also bought Ximian. But if you look a little closer then you'll notice that they've bought Ximian for about 10 or 20 million dollars and SuSE for about 220 million dollars. Therefore, risking the larger investment would be pretty stupid.
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Re: major distros?
by David on Sunday 08/Aug/2004, @10:26
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I'm afraid that there are politically opposed forces within Novell who are trying to tell everyone the way things are going to be (even in direct conflict with existing product lines, and even their own Vice Chairrman). I have a feeling they're going to be rather embarrassed.
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