When SUSE Met Beryl and When It Just Won't Install (Videos)
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2007-10-07 23:38:30 UTC
Modified: 2007-10-07 23:38:30 UTC
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It is fair to argue that OpenSUSE is a very decent desktop (Novell's sins aside). That's just an objective assessment. Here is a standard desktop experience with Beryl, illustrated with OpenSUSE 10.2 and KDE.
There is nothing exceptional about the following video, but it probably shows a defect in OpenSUSE, which is unable to proceed with installation. No known cause is specified.
When you use SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, you help Novell.
Please, please please stop spreading this FUD Roy. When you use an OPEN distribution of Linux you help LINUX. It's called openSUSE for a reason. You're not "helping Novell" by using openSUSE any more than you're "helping" RedHat when you run Fedora. Would you say you're hurting RedHat by running CentOS? So along those lines of thinking everyone should stop running CentOS?
Roy Schestowitz
2007-10-08 08:44:26
When a person runs OpenSUSE, he or she, as a potential system administrator, will be inclined to choose SLES/SLES for the enterprise. Moreover, there are bug reports, vanity figures for Novell, and upgrades (price-wise) to consider. We covered this before. A large OpenSUSE userbase is a great asset to Novell. Watch/follow the hyperlink above as well.
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Comments
Eric Gearhart
2007-10-08 05:44:26
Please, please please stop spreading this FUD Roy. When you use an OPEN distribution of Linux you help LINUX. It's called openSUSE for a reason. You're not "helping Novell" by using openSUSE any more than you're "helping" RedHat when you run Fedora. Would you say you're hurting RedHat by running CentOS? So along those lines of thinking everyone should stop running CentOS?
Roy Schestowitz
2007-10-08 08:44:26