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Novell To Open Source SUSE

Posted by timothy on from the depends-on-your-definition dept.

jambarama writes "Newsforge reports Novell will be open sourcing SUSE professional under the name OpenSUSE. Is Novell following in the footsteps of Red Hat Inc., with its Fedora Core Linux distribution, or continuing its own open source policy as it has in the past as with YAST?" Note that it looks like the opensuse.org site is not yet up.

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  1. Huh... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Open sourcing a linux distro that contains Open Source Software (OSS). What an interesting concept. Did Novell take a patent on this? Will Microsoft be the doing the same thing? What about SCO?

    1. Re:Huh... by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 2, Funny

      SCO will be sueing Novell for open sourcing Open Source Software. Darl McBride was quoted as saying "This kind of thing can't be allowed to continue, where would this country be if software were free"?

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  2. Oh the HUMANITY!! by Billy+the+Impaler · · Score: 1, Funny

    Somebody pre-slashdotted the opensuse link. I know one of you did it. Probably one of those grimy subscribers Fess up!

  3. Where's my cape? by cshark · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone else notice that the domain opensuse.org is registered to the caped crusader himself?

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    1. Re:Where's my cape? by goldspider · · Score: 2, Funny

      Bruce Wayne is just some aloof, philanthropic billionaire. You're thinking of Batman.

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  4. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, Debian and Gentoo is also creating an "open source" versions of their respective OS's.

    Oh... Wait a minute... :-)

  5. Re:The real question: does it rhyme? by ShaniaTwain · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yast in the past was twice as fast,
    as suse on the loose with juice,
    but the smell will tell
    if novell has done well,
    or if redhat has gotten their goose.

    (with apologies to seuss)

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  6. OpenSUSE? by JPriest · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean the name was has not already been taken by a porn site? Cool!

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  7. Re:Dreaded Double Digits! by Kelson · · Score: 2, Funny

    And when has Slackware ever followed trends? ;-)

  8. Re:The real question: binary compatibility by Hosiah · · Score: 2, Funny

    You could also get the source code, grep it for library references, and hook things up to your needs and compile it and install it yourself, by hand, coding the occasional softlink and/or shell script to make it work your way. But, oops, I forgot, it's hedistic sacriledge to even mention such a thing in a Linux discussion on Slashdot, in these days of Ubuntu/Mandriva dominance. Forget I mentioned that. What I meant to say is, programs are written by the program fairy, and cannot be installed on a system without the magic install wizard.