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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?

  2. 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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  3. 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... :-)

  4. 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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