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Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire SUSE
Mickey Hill writes "Novell today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire SUSE LINUX, one of the world's leading enterprise Linux companies, expanding Novell's ability to provide enterprise-class services and support on the Linux platform. Novell expects the transaction to close by the end of its first fiscal quarter (January 2004). This latest move follows Novell's August purchase of Ximian."
stupid proprietary YaST (Yoda and Skywalker Teabagging)
boring hardware compatibility, performance crap.
This, along with the "boring, unimportant documentation crap" is the main reason Linux specifically and open source in general is a failure among all but the most pasty basement dwelling nerds.
How does it make you feel to know that your comment is the poster child for MS' ownage of Linux? I bet you thought you were being insightful, but you are dooming Linux to being the redheaded step child of MS.
Novell/SUSE LINUX to become the world's
entered into an agreement to acquire SUSE LINUX
Linux is not a fuggin acronymn!!! I really gets on my nerves when I see it in straight-caps.
Yup. I'm mad. Damn mad. I don't think it's a good thing that SuSE goes to Novell (read: Netscape and AOL), and now that RedHat has decided to kill off consumer Linux we've now entered into the dark ages. If Linux survives 2004 I'll be surprised now. Yeah yeah I know Debian Slackware Gentoo blah blah blah - but really as far as a polished, retail-ready product goes for the consumer and small business, Linux just jumped off the proverbial cliff into a sea of proverbial thumbtacks and razorblades coated with the proverbial salt and lemon juice.
... given the high market-penetration that SUSE has over here - I suspect that Novell will get rid of the specifics of SUSE. My personal projection is that Novell will manage to kill it.
Another brick taken. Germany slowly moving to the level of --? Portugal ?
CC.
TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
SuSE is my fav.
I wonder for how much longer. .
bULLOCKS TO YOU, nOVELL!!!
bIG cORP0s ARE TEH sUCK!
GENTOO OWNS. I AM MOVING TO GENTOO.
I was waiting for you fanboys to show up.
Here's a dick, suck it. Apt-get a fucking system-administrator, cuz you have no idea what's going on under the hood.
Have you read any of the Fedora Email Lists? -- RedHat are not pissing-off developers, they are opening up the development process to developers and this is resulting is loads of cool stuff happening.
I'm somewhat shocked by the amount of FUD on /. about RedHat at the moment...
The Fedora 1 CDs will be out in a few days, it'll probably be the biggest bittorrent download ever and perhaps people will start to realise that what RedHat is doing is a good thing -- they are embracing and working with the community more than ever :-)
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Either way, linux growth is going to stop dead for a good chunk of time while these issues with Redhat and Suse settle down.
Like everyone who "knows" says.... if it's stability you want (not just stable OS software, but stable philosophy too) just head on over to FreeBSD-land.
You don't keed to be Kreskin to look into Linux's future. Even a child knows that Linux is dying. All major marketing surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim.
Due to the troubles of Linux, abysmal sales and so on, SuSE went out of business and was taken over by Novell who sell another troubled OS. Now RedHat is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
The numbers continue to decline for Novell but Linux may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for Linux continues in a head spinning downward spiral. In truth, for all practical purposes Linux is already dead. It is a dead man walking. It's a fact: Linux is dying.
(sorry, but it just fit so well!)
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Why the FUCK do companies insist on using Real fscking Player for streaming anything? Not only is the actual Real Player itself a piece of shit, the streaming protocol ISN'T EVEN VERY GOOD! Let's see... *starts 'streaming' via Real Crapper*
2 seconds of sound... pause *communicating*
3 seconds of sound... pause *communicating*
ARGHHHHHH!
Methinks a website should be setup for the advocacy of boycitting any website that insist on using fucking Real Player.
And no, I don't think 'Flash' is a viable alternative. It didn't work for me anyway.
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
(Boy that felt good after all the anti-BSD trolling over the years. Happily running FreeBSD 4.8 and not worrying about any of this.
If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well it were done quickly... MacBeth
Novell will be exhibiting at the Southern California Linux Expo on November 22nd at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. Other exhibitors include Real Networks, IBM, and Pogo Linux. Some of the speakers include Seth Nickell, Chris Dibona, and Patrick Mochel. Full and student tickets are still available for this event as well as free exhibition only passes using the FREE promotional code.