OT: Interesting news - what does this mean for RH?

taharka res00vl8 at alltel.net
Tue Nov 7 19:21:55 UTC 2006


How do,

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 13:11 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > Anne, If I were a suse user, I'd certainly be looking for alternatives.  
> 
> I have tried suse, and the thing that seems to be missing is the equivalent
> of livna, freshrpms, et. al. If there are lots of 3rd party repos out
> there with pre-built binaries for suse, they are not getting much
> publicity.

The repositories are out there, you just have to know where to look ;-)

> Maybe you'll be able to get all that 3rd party stuff on suse via
> Windows Update soon :-).

Only if you're running suse enterprise systems & have paid your support
fees.

> (Actually, it probably won't be named suse very long - they'll have
> to change it to something like Linux.NET).

Won't happen with open suse, it's a community just like fedora.

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.




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