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openSUSE Launches 11.1
Novell has unveiled their latest release to the openSUSE line with 11.1. Offering both updates and new features, Novell continues to push for more openness and transparency. The new release includes Linux kernel 2.6.27, Python 2.6, Mono 2.0, OpenOffice 3.0, and many others. "[...] Our choice was also influenced by impressive changes that are transpiring in the openSUSE community, which is growing rapidly and is also becoming more open, inclusive, and transparent. Last month, the project announced its first community-elected board, a major milestone in its advancement towards community empowerment. This is a very good openSUSE release and it delivers some very impressive enhancements. The distro has evolved tremendously in the past two releases and is becoming a very solid and usable option for regular users."
It is an Microsoft os. Novell have gone to the darkside. Mono - oh dear NO Thanks.
Oh I see, you are trying to be clever and say because a company that has a monopoly on desktops should make a deal with a Linux distro, we should also dump all our desktops and be innoperative as a company? Yes, good business sense. You should be running a fortune 500.
So by your logic, if you owe money to the mob and are now in debt for life and you see your brother going for a loan, you should be 'happy'???
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
Ironically, I know companies which started Linux (SUSE) adoption upon hearing the news about collaboration.
If nothing else, that was one huge pitch to use Linux coming from nobody else but Microsoft itself.
If you have business and have heaps of Windows servers and Windows clients, adopting something (e.g. RH or Debian) what isn't targeting heterogeneous environment where M$ dominates, is plain too risky. With SUSE the risk is much lower and calling Novell support on M$ vs. Linux compatibility is already an option. Try calling RH and complain that RHEL doesn't connect to Windows (or vise versa).
No, I personally do not like that Novell cooperates with M$. Yes, it is sound business decision which is needed now to spur wider Linux adoption. I hope that famous Novell lawyers know what they do. Let the GPL be with them.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
Can we please keep SUSE out of slashdot? I use linux for everything but Novell is pretty much a traitor and I want nothing to do with them. I'd hope others will remember how Microsoft is manipulating Novell to abscond with Open Source. Remember Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
Yes, really, this is not even freshmeat material. It was not even released yet... Who cares? And well, as long as Novell is behind this I'd rather not care at all about testing it, it is not like the other distros didn't do a much better job at those things that were mentioned so eagerly in this slashvertisement...
Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
Isn't todays default mail client internet explorer?
>>Why is this marked as TROLL??
Because msft shills take over slashdot anytime msft thinks it's important to quash discussions that msft might find unflattering.
Typical msft "Tonya Harding" tactics - just like the msft/novl scam.
If anybody claims that the deal was not a scam, then please explain why the deal was needed?