Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 28th May 2006 15:07 UTC, submitted by Valour
SoftwareInReview takes a look at SUSE 10.1, and summarizes: "While SUSE Linux 10.1 has lost some ground on its wonderful predecessor, I can see where it is headed in the future - and I like what I'm envisioning. A mildly buggy release like 10.1 was necessary in the big picture, unless of course Novell had opted to wait until issues with Atheros drivers, the ZENworks updater, and XGL were resolved. That would have resulted in a 'skipped' release, I think. Despite the trouble I had with 10.1, none of the problems were showstoppers, nor would they keep me from continuing to use and recommend SUSE Linux."
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2005-07-06
It seems to me that SUSE is trying to be what Ubuntu is/will be. The Ximian people want kick ass GNOME desktop with all the latest cool Mono stuff and refinements (e.g. Tango) but Ubuntu have been doing this for nearly two years now.
Yer, and they've also been doing it without developing everything in Mono, which just sucks the resources out of your system and produces anything but stable software. If Novell are serious about this thing I just wonder what's going to happen when they get this stuff into their paid enterprise software, and just how cheesed off existing customers, especially those using still using Netware, are going to be.
Additionally with Ubuntu, you get the same base distribution with a focused Gnome or KDE system on top, with proper integrated KDE and Gnome tools, and those tools are getting better all the time.
It strikes me that Novell, with the help of some internal politics, have destroyed an already working distro that made users and customers happy by rewriting things that will never work in their favourite pet technologies. Even worse, it will take many years to completely stabilise this stuff, and perhaps even longer to write the new things they desperately need. If you read many Novell blog replies by many Netware customers (and these are people paying serious money - not free Suse users) you'll see that they've picked up on this as well, and they're not happy at all. This isn't a good sign.