[OT] Novell to Aquire SUSE

Kevin Francis kevin at loose-screws.com
Thu Nov 6 15:46:32 UTC 2003


nope. Redhat config tools are already there. as well as the other GNOME
config tools apart from RH ones.

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:54, James Drabb wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:17, Gord Busse wrote:
> > Someone had mentioned something on this list earlier about Novell. Well
> > I just happened across this press release. Apparently Novell it taking
> > Linux VERY seriously.
> >  
> > http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/11/pr03069.html
> 
> I also just read this before you posted it.  I wonder what Novell will
> do about the desktop.  SuSE uses KDE by default and most/all of their
> tools are built for KDE.  Novell also just bought Ximian which has the
> XD2 desktop based on Gnome.  I wonder if Novell will use KDE as their
> default desktop or rip it out and use XD2.  The only thing with that is
> that they will need to make all new admin applications.
> 
> Jim Drabb





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