Novell is talking to a number of OEMs about getting its upcoming SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 preinstalled on the hardware systems they ship. But while Ron Hovsepian, Novell's president and chief operating officer, said the company had nothing to announce in this regard at its annual BrainShare conference here, Novell is talking to a number of key vendors like Dell in this regard. "I know there is an opportunity here and we are working on the how and the when," he said in a media and analyst question and answer session. The delay of Vista could not have come at a better time for Novell, in this regard.
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Member since:2005-11-14
To be honest I don't know what the point of your post was in the context of this topic, but here goes:
- Ubuntu Dapper is not released yet, today's comparison would be with the latest stable version. Tomorrow's comparison can be done with Ubuntu 6.06.
- FC5 doesn't support 3D accell on nVidia cards because there are no free drivers to support that. If you download the drivers from nVidia you'll also need to update the OS, big deal.
- openSUSE also doesn't ship nVidia's proprietary drivers.
Member since:2006-03-24
Actually, my comparisons are relevant:
- Dapper is not released yet and OpenSUSE 10.1 is still in beta as well (beta 8 in fact).
- FC5 (release) Does not support 3D under nvidia nForce for amd64 even _WITH_ the nvidia drivers and the fix for the problem in kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.x86_64 (? by memory as it was wiped from my drive earlier today) is scheduled for some 'upcoming release' where we can actually install the nvidia drivers if necessary.
- OpenSUSE is using 'nvidia' and works correctly.
Member since:
2006-03-24
Well, on my dual amd64 as it stands right now,
- Ubuntu (Dapper) can't boot into the 2 most recent kernels due to a kernel panic and various "window not responding Force Quit" in Gnome issues.
- FC5 has no 3D accelleration for nForce boards due to a snafu at the end of the release cycle.
- OpenSUSE has xgl, 3D, stability, ttf, and good integration.
Why shouldn't I deploy it on my machines that interact with the Universities Novel/Winblows systems?