RE: [Ossi] Re: [school-discuss] Re: Novell/SUSE

["John Hannon" <john.hannon@usm.edu>]

For three years, since discovering open source software
through Linux, I
have explored various distributions with an emphasis on
desktop
functionality (for technically 'average' users). My
favorites have tended
to be SUSE w/ KDE and Red Hat Ximian Desktop.  

My main problems with either of these was the package
management
functionality...SUSE's Yast is no apt-get, and Ximian's
update required a
fee for decent download speeds. This led me to Libranet
and Xandros, both
fine distros in my opinion.

Now I do not know what to think with:
1. SUSE and Ximian on the same side.
2. Fedora now with a decent package manager (so I've heard
in these posts).

I think it great to have choices...and exciting to see the
evolutions
continue!

jeff hannon

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Tom Adelstein
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 11:25 PM
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Subject: [Ossi] Re: [school-discuss] Re: Novell/SUSE



suhaw@giskard.com.sg wrote:
> At 08:54 05/11/2003, you wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday 04 November 2003 14:18, Marilyn wrote:
>> > Yes, this RedHat news is a bummer.
>> >
>> > What is the opinion of this group on the Novell/SUSE purchase?
>>
>> I hope that what happened to WordPerfect when Novell bought it
>> doesn't happen to SUSE.
>>
>> paul
> 
> 
> looks like Novell is finally getting its act together.
> 
> after years of languishing in its cash horde from NetWare sales, it 
> finally decided on a viable plan for the future.
> 
> first it bought Ximian, a really great linux software company with a 
> fantastic desktop PIM application, namely Evolution. Now it bought one 
> of the better Linux distro.
> 
> things are looking up. :-)

  From a strategic point of view, the new CEO Jack Messman
has completely 
changed the direction of Novell and the culture.

But, one has to give some credit to Eric Schmidt (of Sun
Java fame) for 
coming over from Sun and implementing Novell version 5
with TCPIP. 
Schmidt also put Novell into the Open Source world and now
runs Google.

You might have noticed that Open LDAP has benefited from
Novell's 
support, code contributions and development.

Any reference to WordPerfect has to go back to the Ray
Norda era when he 
ran the company. Also, remember Norda is the founder of
the current SCO 
and it's his money that pays the bills on SCO's lawsuits
and threats.

Norda no longer has anything to do with Novell. We need to
flush the 
cache on Novell and recognize what they've done even prior
to any 
acquisitions.



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