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Novell acquires SUSE

Novell acquires SUSE

Posted Nov 4, 2003 14:27 UTC (Tue) by zonker (guest, #7867)
Parent article: Novell acquires SUSE

Hrm. I wonder how this is going to affect KDE? SUSE's distro is very KDE-centric, but there would certainly be a strong business case for SUSE to move towards Ximian GNOME... or could we see a Ximian KDE? Should be interesting...


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Ximian + SUSE = freedesktop.org

Posted Nov 4, 2003 22:38 UTC (Tue) by hazelsct (guest, #3659) [Link]

No need to worry. With deals like Munich in pocket, SUSE won't abandon KDE any time soon. And with all its commitments, Ximian won't abandon GNOME either.

So in my view, having them both under one roof can only increase the pressure to further expand the scope of freedesktop.org. Perhaps soon we'll see an esd-compatible wrapper for aRts so sound effects will play on either desktop, Evolution and AbiWord will integrate well into KDE, and Konqueror will become a GNOME file management option!

Or perhaps I'm daring to dream just a bit too much...

Novell acquires SUSE

Posted Nov 13, 2003 16:45 UTC (Thu) by petebull (guest, #7857) [Link]

I don't think much will change in the future SUSE releases:

CEO Seibt on KDE in "NOVELL@SUSE":
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=106855804831790&w=2

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