SuSE's death
SuSE's death
Posted Nov 3, 2006 19:17 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333)In reply to: SuSE's death by beoba
Parent article: Various responses to Microsoft/Novell
When people say stuff like 'give back suse it's soul'.. they realy mean 'get rid of Gnome and go back to KDE'.
As far as I am concerned Novell was a good thing for Suse.
For instance they open sourced YAST. (which unfortunately was too late to save it in terms of more widespread usage)
Posted Nov 3, 2006 21:43 UTC (Fri)
by rvfh (guest, #31018)
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Posted Nov 6, 2006 9:02 UTC (Mon)
by niner (subscriber, #26151)
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Yes, it's true, that there are now mono- (and thus gtk2) based administration programs like the software updater and the compiz configuration. But for both of them the next version will have KDE-based replacements. And the new software updater looks really nice.
Sometimes it really is better to build your own opinion and see first hand. Which ain't really difficult with everything being available for free and such.
Posted Nov 6, 2006 11:14 UTC (Mon)
by alonso (guest, #2828)
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Posted Nov 4, 2006 2:25 UTC (Sat)
by heise2k (guest, #41269)
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YAST is cool, but the new updater sucks; hard. I have taken to using smart
I am still hoping things don't turn out as bad as I and many others think
-Bob
Yes, that's exactly what I meant: SuSE and KDE always were like the two
fingers of the hand :-) Putting Gnome as default on SuSE feels like if
Ubuntu was changing to KDE and creating a new Gubuntu project for Gnome
users. It would lose its soul IMO (and that's from a Kubuntu user!).
SuSE's death
I wonder where you have that "Gnome is default" stuff from? Because it's definitely untrue. SUSE 10.1 gives you the choice when installing and neither KDE, nor Gnome is preselected. The choices are equal. And this doesn't change with 10.2 AFAIK.Since when is Gnome default?
They do that and then rethink about the decision. And I think that the default destop for SLED is gnome.Since when is Gnome default?
Yes. I have liked SuSE since a long time, and was sad when Novell bought SuSE's death
them. I did like the strong KDE relationship and more European flavour of
the German SuSE. To be fair openSUSE has had good KDE support, but all
that mono garbage like beagle and the zmd/redcarpet crap that needs to be
disabled is horrible. Gnome is cute, and part of me kind of wants to like
it, but it is so hard to do real things with. Maybe some people like less
functionality, less options, less interoperability, less performance, etc.
instead, and haven't looked back. Novell might have done some good things,
one of the best being making it easier to download, (getting 13Gb off
their ftp was never fun). The bad things they've done; however, were right
against what made SuSE good.
they will... but I'm not going to install something else now; just because
of this. The software I'm running in the moment is still F/OSS, like it
was 2 days ago, nothing they do can change _that_ - in the future, that
depends on how this all plays-out.