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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. DONGS by Sarojin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    DONGS (FP)

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    HOW'S MY POSTING? CALL 1-800-POSTING
  2. The only good nigger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is a bombed nigger!

  3. kde vs gnome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I recently updated from BSD 4.6 to 4.9. On 4.6 I had both KDE and GNOME installed, and saw little difference between them, performance-wise.

    However, with 4.9, GNOME 2.4 sucks ass. Right click on the desktop... 30 seconds later, a menu appears. the xterm app was unusable. start typing, text takes too long to appear. And don't try to move a window... it might take a minute or 2 for it to redraw. And now, galeon requires mozilla to be installed. Kind of defeats the purpose of a stand-alone gecko engine if you have to install mozilla, doesn't it?

    KDE 3.1.4 took a while to start up after logging in, but was fully useable and just as snappy as Windows 2k on the same machine. I found the kermaric default window mgr theme to be ugly, though.

  4. Re:GNAA FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Try to stop me. The KKK doesn't have any say in Germany. Better shut up or you'll get a nice visit from the Waffen-SS.

  5. Re:GNAA FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    KKK on GNAA. What is it all about... is it good, or is it whack?

  6. goatse troll by sloanster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    blech, loud and filthy presentation that may get you fired...

  7. Re:Novell showing wisdom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

    This is not the actual quote from Ben Franklin, of course, and it's not true. There are plently of cases where we happily give up a small amount of freedom for a substantial amount of security; not doing so would be foolish. Also foolish would be giving up a lot of freedom for a small amount of security, which is actually what Franklin said.

  8. I installed Ximinan Desktop on top of SuSE 9.0 Pro by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I recently installed SuSE 9.0 Professional and then installed Ximian DEsktop "upgrade" from Novell. The Ximian edition of OO did not work with the quick launcher, and I reinstalled the origional (actually have both as they name their preference folder's differently). I had to manually restore kdm and now I cannot run gnome from kmd. Even under GDM, the old "gnome" selction was corrupted and a new "Gnome" selection ran Ximian Desktop. Now I cannot get Ximian desktop to launch from kdm at all.

    On the plus side, the Ximian installer did set up interation between Evolution and Galeon, and install a few viewers/plugins into Galeon (although I think Ximian is focusing on another Galeon-like browser as standard -- I can't remember the name and I am currently at work on a Windoze box).

    Mike