Do it now while there's still time. Reject any code coming out of Novell. They could have been poisoning the well for months and months before this deal was made public.
I took a shot at removing Mono from a Suse 10.0 (retail) system and it informed me that removing it would break almost every package.
Mono is latched into Suse like a tick. Can it be removed at all? Or do I need to just reinstall from scratch and deselect mono during the setup?
I really resent this entire situation. I do NOT want M$ compatibility or inter-operability. I LIKE the incompatibility and non inter-operability. To me, that's the best thing about Linux.
to develop my own distro, sans mono and any other suspect code. This is what Linux is all about, if you don't like it, roll your own. I have no experience rolling up a distro from scratch but I see that now is the time to begin learning.
I have been a loyal Suse fan for years now, I guess since about 7.3. No more. I'm phasing out my Suse installations beginning ASAP..
Thanks Suse, it was a great run but the honeymoon is over and I want a divorce.
I signed up to be a beta tester for Vista. I make money by helping people with THEIR windows problems. I wanted to beat the learning curve. When Vista hits the streets I'm ready to go make money helping people. I'm 6 months ahead of the game.
"one of them actively contributes, and the other is saying it will help with interoperability."
Some of us don't want interoperability.. A large portion of the Linux community abandoned M$ and switched to Linux because we HATE M$. Some of us worship the incompatibility of the two systems. IMO it's the best thing about Linux..
Invest some $$ in project X then subvert the system and cause damage from within.
This applies to this situation and the M$/Novell deal..
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. And enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."
I've advised all the Suse users I know and support to do the same thing, right now. I will no longer be doing any updates to any of the Suse installations I support via Novell.
I'm actively seeking a replacement distro.
The poisoning of the well is under way, get out now while you still can.
How can one vote if one doesn't understand what one is voting for? Suppose there was a vote held for to make it mandatory to grind all puppies and kittens into grease for face cream and everyone passed it out of ignorance?
"it may ultimately be very divisive for the Linux community."
No shit?
This development signals a parting of ways for everyone I know with Suse Linux. My phone has been ringing off the wall and everyone is asking me, "What should we switch to now?" No one I know wants to have anything to do with this abomination.
This is nothing more than a ploy to poison the well.
Thanks Suse, it was great while it lasted, but now you've shot yourself in both feet and we don't trust you anymore.
What if I want to get on a boat or plane and leave ameriKa forever? I just want to sell everything and flip off the entire country as I board for a one way trip to anywhere but here.
would be because M$ is going to ass rape Novell Suse Linux into oblivion with a flaming chainsaw. M$ is going to pollute Linux with their poison code then sue everyone else out of existence.
I've been a loyal Suse user for a few years now, I PURCHASE, use and resell Suse Linux. I have advocated and pushed Suse Linux commercially and personally to customers, friends and family.
But this is the end of the relationship. It is time to part ways with Suse now. I don't want to update machines only to later discover they've been tainted by M$ code. I am now actively researching the distros for a good Suse replacement.
I see this M$ / Novell alliance as the worst thing that could happen. This will put an end to a consumers right of freedom to choose. Up next, M$ buys Intell, AMD, Award & Phoenix. And for desert, M$ plans to have a double helping of Apple pie.
I'm really sick of google and all their adventures in exorbitant spending sprees. I sincerely look forward to the day when they eat shit and go down in flames, like so many other profiteers eventually do.
One day we will see all their toys up for sale at auction after they have done the perp walk for the cameras...
If I could take a one way trip to Mars with no hope of returning to Earth, I would do it in a heartbeat, no regrets, no second thoughts. Stick me on a rocket and get me the hell off this planet, please.
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to banish Novell/Suse to the Linux Leper Colony.
Do it now while there's still time. Reject any code coming out of Novell.
They could have been poisoning the well for months and months before this deal was made public.
What color is the sunrise on your planet?
They will ignore the demands and accept the fine.
Then they will say they will pay with vouchers for MS software.
Same shit, different day..
These people are scumbag profiteers. They pollute the airwaves with their obnoxious commercials and poison the public with their unhealthy food.
Now they are creating visual pollution on the grandest scale.
This is nothing but predatory profiteering and these giant ads, and this is not the first one, should be made illegal.
Damn. When is enough enough??
Doubleplusgood..
I took a shot at removing Mono from a Suse 10.0 (retail) system and it informed me that removing it would break almost every package.
Mono is latched into Suse like a tick. Can it be removed at all?
Or do I need to just reinstall from scratch and deselect mono during the setup?
I really resent this entire situation.
I do NOT want M$ compatibility or inter-operability.
I LIKE the incompatibility and non inter-operability. To me, that's the best thing about Linux.
Is there a leper colony available to send bad/sick/naughty Linux companies to?
People need to vote with their pocketbook and put Novell out of business, ASAFP.
to develop my own distro, sans mono and any other suspect code.
This is what Linux is all about, if you don't like it, roll your own.
I have no experience rolling up a distro from scratch but I see that now is the time to begin learning.
I have been a loyal Suse fan for years now, I guess since about 7.3.
No more. I'm phasing out my Suse installations beginning ASAP..
Thanks Suse, it was a great run but the honeymoon is over and I want a divorce.
Just say no to MicroSuse.
I signed up to be a beta tester for Vista.
I make money by helping people with THEIR windows problems.
I wanted to beat the learning curve.
When Vista hits the streets I'm ready to go make money helping people.
I'm 6 months ahead of the game.
But personally, I'll stick with my Linux.
"one of them actively contributes, and the other is saying it will help with interoperability."
Some of us don't want interoperability..
A large portion of the Linux community abandoned M$ and switched to Linux because we HATE M$.
Some of us worship the incompatibility of the two systems.
IMO it's the best thing about Linux..
Invest some $$ in project X then subvert the system and cause damage from within.
This applies to this situation and the M$/Novell deal..
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. And enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."
-Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
I refuse to use MicroSuse. And everyone that I know and support that uses Linux WILL be changing to another distro.
The poisoning of the well has begun.
Traitors..
I've advised all the Suse users I know and support to do the same thing, right now.
I will no longer be doing any updates to any of the Suse installations I support via Novell.
I'm actively seeking a replacement distro.
The poisoning of the well is under way, get out now while you still can.
How can one vote if one doesn't understand what one is voting for?
Suppose there was a vote held for to make it mandatory to grind all puppies and kittens into grease for face cream and everyone passed it out of ignorance?
Duh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk
"it may ultimately be very divisive for the Linux community."
No shit?
This development signals a parting of ways for everyone I know with Suse Linux.
My phone has been ringing off the wall and everyone is asking me, "What should we switch to now?"
No one I know wants to have anything to do with this abomination.
This is nothing more than a ploy to poison the well.
Thanks Suse, it was great while it lasted, but now you've shot yourself in both feet and we don't trust you anymore.
and she's PISSED..
What if I want to get on a boat or plane and leave ameriKa forever?
I just want to sell everything and flip off the entire country as I board for a one way trip to anywhere but here.
Welcome to the USSA...
would be because M$ is going to ass rape Novell Suse Linux into oblivion with a flaming chainsaw.
M$ is going to pollute Linux with their poison code then sue everyone else out of existence.
I've been a loyal Suse user for a few years now, I PURCHASE, use and resell Suse Linux.
I have advocated and pushed Suse Linux commercially and personally to customers, friends and family.
But this is the end of the relationship. It is time to part ways with Suse now.
I don't want to update machines only to later discover they've been tainted by M$ code.
I am now actively researching the distros for a good Suse replacement.
I see this M$ / Novell alliance as the worst thing that could happen.
This will put an end to a consumers right of freedom to choose.
Up next, M$ buys Intell, AMD, Award & Phoenix. And for desert, M$ plans to have a double helping of Apple pie.
so I can smash their FN hands with a hammer.
They'll have to do their spamming by holding a stick in their FN mouth.
I'm so sick of this shit.. They fly in totally under spamassassins radar. I have SA threshhold set at 2.1 and this shit still scores less than a 1.0..
I'm about ready to whitelist the people I know and blackhole everything else.
HI! I'M BILLY MAYS!!
And there you have it..
a story about "The Patriot Act" appeared on /. and nobody commented on it because they were afraid to?
Like all the chicken hawks running America?
I'm really sick of google and all their adventures in exorbitant spending sprees.
I sincerely look forward to the day when they eat shit and go down in flames, like so many other profiteers eventually do.
One day we will see all their toys up for sale at auction after they have done the perp walk for the cameras...
Do no^H^H evil..
If I could take a one way trip to Mars with no hope of returning to Earth, I would do it in a heartbeat, no regrets, no second thoughts. Stick me on a rocket and get me the hell off this planet, please.