Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 23rd Nov 2006 22:07 UTC, submitted by Philipp Esselbach
openSUSE 10.2 RC1 has been released: "I'm glad to announce Release Candidate 1 of openSUSE 10.2 codename Basilisk Lizard. It contains a large number of enhancements and updates done by the open source community and Novell's development teams. Screenshot walkthrough here.
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2005-07-06
Gossly inflated fee to who, someone trying to use it on their play machine? Yeah maybe.
Firstly there's licensing, which people moving from Windows want to get away from. Secondly there's the cost of updates and support. This kind of overhead is acceptable on servers but not on desktops. With Windows you pay your license and then update away. Sad, but true.
That instantly makes it less attractive to people already on Windows. The less than stellar sales so far tells me that this is at least partially true.
I can get Novell support for SLED, can't for openSuse.
Why?
I can run the Novell client on SLED, not openSuse.
Why?
I can run the cross platform groupwise client on SLED, not openSuse(at least it's not supported).
That would be Evolution, but considering how utterly bug-ridden Evolution and Groupwise are (it's taken about a year to get one service pack out for Groupwise 7) I would be holding off myself.
Really. These aren't selling points.
The point is, until you're actually in an "enterprise" environment, don't crap over something that is geared towards organizational networks and not mom's computer.
Newsflash: I am. Given the less than stellar sales of SLED I don't see people in enterprise environments getting excited about SLED, and putting the overhead of a license fee and support fees on top for every desktop doesn't exactly help. Novell should be doing all it can to aid people moving people off Windows, not putting extra baggage on.
Nobody said the desktop market was easy.