boycottnovell.com— Domain Name: FREESUSE.COM; Registrar: BELGIUMDOMAINS, LLC; Updated Date: 01-Nov-2006; Creation Date: 01-Nov-2006... A fork to freedom? Some existing SUSE would hope so.
Nov 22, 2006View in Crawl 4
Cheers. Linux users need a villian, weather it be SCO, Microsoft or Novell. I own SUSE 10.1 and love it, and I will most likely buy 10.2, etc. People need to relax and see where the pieces fall before they get so worked up over the whole thing.
I guess Gnome must be tainted too, considering some of their developers work for Novell....Seriously though, cut this s**t out. Novell hasn't done anything wrong, in fact they've contributed a lot to our community. And they will keep doing that. (anything that comes out of the deal will be gpl'd they say) Wait until they actually do something evil before criticizing them like this.
@SuperNickI'd say install them both, and try them out. I use both, to be honest, just because I like the fact that "Linux" doesn't have one and only one DE.After playing around with one or the other, you will probably find one that you have a chemistry with, or, as in my case, use 'em all.
the end is nigh! the end is nigh!Novell has done NOTHING to "crap all over" SuSe at this point. How about instead of being a doomsayer, you contribute something necessary and productive for once?Novell has the freedom to do whatever they wish, so long as it complies with the few requirements stated in the GPL. Thus far, Novell has done nothing to warrant them from "revoking that licence". Freedom is a bitch, eh?
Red Hat are good guys on the block, worthy of support of anyone wanting to switch from SUSE/Novell. I'd still recommend Ubuntu though, for two reasons: It's much less "beta" than Fedora (but then you can run CentOS like parent said) and it uses deb/apt. Yum, and to some extent, RPM are horrible. If you don't think so, then odds are you just haven't tried anything better. Windows users also think that .msi is the epitome of easy... :)Well anyways, neither is a bad choice, and Fedora may even be more morally correct if Ubuntu makes the (bad IMO) move to include closed drivers for the next version.
Anyway I'm all for rehabilitating Novel. And I do recognize the many valuable contributions that they have made to the Linux community. However I cannot help but feel that this deal is bad for the Linux community as a whole. It is nothing short of an attempt by Microsoft to wrest control of Linux from the Linux community - through the deployment of FUD. I say that an effort should be made with the GPL 3 exactly in order to invalidate FUD like this anyway. The opportunity exists in this light to make the deal pretty much worthless to Microsoft as a means of scaring users and customers away from Linux I definitely think that the authors of the GPL3 should us it.
tarpitNov 23, 2006
What about opensuse. Opensuse is like as Fedora is to SLED. Opensuse only has Open source packages.
cquilliamNov 23, 2006
Cheers. Linux users need a villian, weather it be SCO, Microsoft or Novell. I own SUSE 10.1 and love it, and I will most likely buy 10.2, etc. People need to relax and see where the pieces fall before they get so worked up over the whole thing.
cynicistNov 23, 2006
I guess Gnome must be tainted too, considering some of their developers work for Novell....Seriously though, cut this s**t out. Novell hasn't done anything wrong, in fact they've contributed a lot to our community. And they will keep doing that. (anything that comes out of the deal will be gpl'd they say) Wait until they actually do something evil before criticizing them like this.
lobsterNov 23, 2006
Neither Gnome nor KDEI prefer Xfce. I also prefer Puppy Linux because it gets the whole operating system and the software in the size most distros require for the Window managerNow you Suse Penguins. You Gnomes and KDE'rs.Get some Puppytude:<a class="user" href="http://tmxxine.com/Wikka/wikka.php?wakka=PuppyLove">http://tmxxine.com/Wikka/wikka.php?wakka=PuppyLove</a>
ataribyNov 23, 2006
The more forks the better, just shoot linux in the foot one more time.
hungryhaneyNov 23, 2006
@SuperNickI'd say install them both, and try them out. I use both, to be honest, just because I like the fact that "Linux" doesn't have one and only one DE.After playing around with one or the other, you will probably find one that you have a chemistry with, or, as in my case, use 'em all.
ravatarNov 23, 2006
the end is nigh! the end is nigh!Novell has done NOTHING to "crap all over" SuSe at this point. How about instead of being a doomsayer, you contribute something necessary and productive for once?Novell has the freedom to do whatever they wish, so long as it complies with the few requirements stated in the GPL. Thus far, Novell has done nothing to warrant them from "revoking that licence". Freedom is a bitch, eh?
stoffeNov 23, 2006
Red Hat are good guys on the block, worthy of support of anyone wanting to switch from SUSE/Novell. I'd still recommend Ubuntu though, for two reasons: It's much less "beta" than Fedora (but then you can run CentOS like parent said) and it uses deb/apt. Yum, and to some extent, RPM are horrible. If you don't think so, then odds are you just haven't tried anything better. Windows users also think that .msi is the epitome of easy... :)Well anyways, neither is a bad choice, and Fedora may even be more morally correct if Ubuntu makes the (bad IMO) move to include closed drivers for the next version.
raid517Nov 24, 2006
Anyway I'm all for rehabilitating Novel. And I do recognize the many valuable contributions that they have made to the Linux community. However I cannot help but feel that this deal is bad for the Linux community as a whole. It is nothing short of an attempt by Microsoft to wrest control of Linux from the Linux community - through the deployment of FUD. I say that an effort should be made with the GPL 3 exactly in order to invalidate FUD like this anyway. The opportunity exists in this light to make the deal pretty much worthless to Microsoft as a means of scaring users and customers away from Linux I definitely think that the authors of the GPL3 should us it.