What also worries me, is openSUSEs close link to Novell. The integration of zmd is such an example.
That's another loss for SUSE, which made friends with the wrong people (that's Steve Ballmer riding the chameleon on the left). While we're at Novell bashing, we might as well add these SUSE security advisory and point out that Novell's client has a privilege escalation vulnerability.
A vulnerability has been reported in Novell Client, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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eet
2007-11-16 09:34:09
"It [ZMD] is removed from 10.3 for good reason."
Your blog stinks like a three-week-old herring.
And why is that iPod-user riding the chamaeleon? Does that point to the good iPod-support in openSUSE's Banshee music player?
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eet
2007-11-16 09:38:09
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SundayRefugee
2007-11-16 10:00:34
Note that I, myself, do not like rolling releases in general (ie; outside of Etch), as I find them much more of a hassle than regular clean installs, but this user feels differently.
Next, the user mentions it in regards to SuSE's relationship with Microsoft. The user doesn't feel that it would ever have been included to begin with were it not for that relationship. Wether that is true or not is open to speculation, but that is something you should take up with the author, not this site, as this site reported on the contents of the article accurately.
It might do you well to not just read, but UNDERSTAND the article before you comment, mate ;-)
Anonymous
2007-11-16 10:11:16
eet
2007-11-16 11:23:04
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Yuhong Bao
2007-11-16 16:13:28
Roy Schestowitz
2007-11-16 17:53:44
Balders
2007-11-16 18:18:13
This site, as the other posters above point out, is nonsense, and a rather sad attempt by an individual with apparently zero experience or understanding of running a large corporate to spread his own FUD.
There have been over 2 million downloads from Novell of Suse Linux which people all over the world are using for free. Linux is free, and will always be free.
SundayRefugee
2007-11-16 23:50:23
However, burying your head in the sand and pretending these issues wrt the MS/Novell deal, patent trolls, OOXML, etc... won't make them irrelevant, unharmful, or make them go away. These are all good things to be aware of.
As usual, there are "you are an idiot" ad-homs, but nothing substantial in the way of specifics. Specifics would be a good starting point to give us common ground to discuss if there is a problem, or not, and what to do about it, or not ;-)
eet
2007-11-17 22:32:07
Yay, now I know what your aim really was, FUDmeister Schestowitz; you wanted to break a world record!
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Yaba
2007-11-20 19:35:42
And *if* I'll ditch SuSE in favour of Kubuntu that is in no way related to any religious view cause of the misinterpreted political relation to Microsoft.
Roy Schestowitz
2007-11-20 21:17:09
SUSE (OpenSUSE) is a good distribution indeed. I look forward to your next article.
eet
2007-11-20 21:20:05
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