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Novell Not Pushing Ximian Onto SuSE

Posted by simoniker on from the natural-progression dept.

dhunley writes "According to TechCentral, a recent story on Novell's plans following the acquisition of both SuSE and Ximian comments that 'SuSE will continue (to operate) as a business unit of its own', according to John Phillips, Novell's corporate technology strategist for the Asia Pacific region. 'We don't expect to make Ximian the default user interface, and for the medium term KDE will remain the default GUI on SuSE Linux'."

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  1. Why no QT? by sflory · · Score: 5, Informative

    QT is open source and a good library. The only major issue is that it's GPL instead of LGPL like GTK. Depending on your view not being able to link comerial apps for free may be a good thing.

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    IANALBIPOOGL (I am not a Lawyer, but I play one on GrokLaw.)
  2. Re:Love Hate With Novell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Obviously, then, you and your business cared nothing for security, open standards, interoperability, stability, reliability, scalability, and high performance.

    None of these things come with the "Windows ease of use" that you so love.

    They all come standard with Novell products.

  3. Re:Good by rsax · · Score: 5, Informative
    While you can install a KDE system without GTK+, SuSE does not let you install a GNOME system without Qt. Why?

    Because YaST requires KDE libs.