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Novell Announces SUSE Linux 9.1

Posted by michael on from the debian-still-rules dept.

ravydavygravy writes "Novell today released details of the next incarnation of its linux products, Suse 9.1, based on the 2.6 kernel. It will come in both 32 and 64-bit versions, and includes a LiveCD version, to help people convince their Windows-loving friends to make the switch. It'll ship with Gnome 2.4.2 and KDE 3.2.1, as well as demo versions of the text processing application Textmaker and the spreadsheet application Planmaker (from Softmaker - but do we really need another office suite?). Samba 3 will also feature in the default setup."

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  1. Yay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm so glad Linux has gotten to the point where we can say "Do we really need another office suite?" :-)

  2. Re:And the CDs... by Roofus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dude, the personal version is going to be priced at $29.95 (at least according to an earlier post). That's a more than reasonable price for a fully featured OS suite. Just buy it from CompUSA or order it online.

  3. Another office suite? by Coryoth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course we need another office suite - as long as it supports compatible formats, who cares how many we have? Choice is good, and, more importantly a bit of competition is good. Right now everything is largely locked into the MS Office paradigm of how to do things, but there are other ways of doing these sorts of applications. The GoBe Productive suite, for instance, while not a direct MS Office offers a different and very nice style of doing some of these things. The more innovative and new thinking we can bring to the party the better we will be.

    I really do fail to believe that the basic MS Office style word processor and spreadsheet are the pinnacle of design for such applications.

    Jedidiah.

    --
    Craft Beer Programming T-shirts
  4. Re:Mono by AirLace · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe you posted the wrong link?

    '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'."

    What you have to remember is that Novell has traditionally been a server-oriented business. Novell is interested in Mono primarily as a server offering -- the Ximian desktop connection is purely incidental. It would make perfect sense for them to bundle Mono to provide ASP.NET support in Apache 2, even if they've decided not ship a single Ximian Gnome library.

  5. But the Real Joy with SuSE... by grahamkg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...is the ability to save a list of the selected packages in a file and use that to configure other machines almost instantly (the user.sel file saved through YaST). It's very powerful.

    SuSE is what RedHat could have been and what Mandrake should aspire to be.

    --
    Graham
    Linux - Fast Pane Relief
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