03.10.09
Gemini version available ♊︎Why is OpenSUSE Looking for Sponsors?
LAST month we came to the realisation that Novell had been betraying the OpenSUSE people (including its paid developers) and instead promoted Microsoft technologies (mostly American employees, not the Europeans whose offices it closed down). Well, it’s getting hard not to see it.
Just appeared in the mailing list:
I’m sorry to say that download.opensuse.org will be unavailable for some time.
Its storage array broke down once again, and we have no backup. (We are in need of hardware since ever; if anyone would be able to sponsor some, we would be very glad about it.)
This affects stage.opensuse.org as well (same box).
I can’t give a timeline yet, but expect it to be offline for one to several days.
Are SUSE developers reaching out for sponsors of hardware? What is this, a charity? This is not the first such downtime, either [1, 2, 3].
We’ve already spoken to someone from OpenSUSE and were not given a satisfying explanation. What does that say about Novell’s relationship with the people who build the foundation of its future business, which is probably the only one that’s growing?
What is going on at Novell? █
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Needs Sunlight said,
March 11, 2009 at 8:58 am
Use of and writing about OpenSuse is depreciated.
Try Fedora or Debian
Roy Schestowitz said,
March 11, 2009 at 9:34 am
My favourite at the moment is Mandriva.
David Gerard said,
March 11, 2009 at 7:13 pm
It’s worth keeping in mind that the current Novell is not quite the original Novell. It’s died before and had the remains and name taken over by someone else. In 2001, Novell “bought” Cambridge Technology Partners – what actually happened was a reverse takeover, like NeXT at Apple but more so.
I wonder if the trick can be pulled again.