Why Is Novell Chopping Its SUSE Linux Workstation and Desktop Product Line?

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And that person isn't always the distro provider anyway.  You have no 
idea how many distro bugs get thrown at me by $LARGE_COMPANY simply 
because X was running with our driver at the time in RHEL or SLES.

On 11/08/2005 05:08 PM, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Gotta admit that Novell support does lend a bit of credibility to the Linux 
> server for big corporations.  While the rest of us are comfortable with the 
> fact that Linux will work and we can make things happen as necessary, 
> management seems to want somebody else to blame as necessary.
> 
> 
> On Sunday 06 November 2005 11:48 am, A. Khattri wrote:
>> On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Rick Sivernell wrote:
>> >  Well after going yhru the Caldera non sense, and now if Suse follows
>> > suit, is there some correlation here. Like is Ransom Love secretly
>> > working for Suse? Or something in that realm, just thinking out loud.
>> > Seems like we have been here before. Seems like our distrib of Linux
>> > vendors is getting smaller. Soon maybe the only thing left is Gentoo,
>> > Ubantu, BSD and Debian. Oh yea, Red Hat. Where shall I go?
>> > Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
>>
>> The writings kinda been on the wall for awhile - that's why I switched
>> away from commercial distros...

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