Rumors circulating that Novell is going to kill off its popular Linux desktop lines are completely false. [However,] Novell is making one large strategic change. The GNOME interface is going to become the default interface on both the SLES and Novell Linux Desktop line. KDE libraries will be supplied on both, but the bulk of Novell's interface moving forward will be on GNOME. "The entire KDE graphical interface and product family will continue to be supported and delivered on OpenSuSE."
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Novell was not making money on SUSE
Yes it was, because Suse was making money.
Novell have invested a lot of effort in Mono
Which creates zero revenue.
Novell are bulding a large Mono stack for Gnome
Not that I can see, and they're certainly not using it if there is one. And no, one or two applications here and there doesn't count.
Novell had to cut costs
Well done.
So instead lets focus on what needs to be done with Gnome:
- Performance has to be better
- Media files needs to work
- More eye candy!
- More and better System GUI tools
- Firefox and Gecko needs to improve
- Usability, usability, usability
Which costs serious amounts of developer time, resources and money - all of which Novell has just fired in order to cut serious costs. For crying out bloody loud, where do you people think all of this comes from to fund this stuff? It doesn't come out of thin air! Novell does not exist in order to pump its own resources and money into something so you little fanboys can use software and develop everything for free. Reality bites.
Get this. Novell does not have the money or resources to do absolutely any of the above, and it certainly doesn't any more. Get real.
Member since:> Novell does not have the money or resources to do
> absolutely any of the above, and it certainly doesn't
> any more.
Not just that, have a look at their current stocks:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=NOVL&t=1d
Member since:2005-07-04
- Novell was not making money on SUSE
SUSE is a profitable division of Novell. Just because Novell itself is starting to go down the tubes, doesn't mean SUSE isn't making money for Novell. That has more to do with Novell's spending habits and maintaining the dying Netware.
- Novell have invested a lot of effort in Mono
And Novell spent a lot of money on SUSE, close to $300 million, so your point is?
"So in summary... Google has pulled the plug on support on a protocol they've helped popularize, after years of promising interoperability, for reasons that are dubious at best, and in a way that leaves people who don't jump to the new Hangouts app unable to talk to their contacts without any feedback that their IMs aren't getting through... And they've done that with no warning to anyone. I imagine there's a bunch of people out there wondering where some of their buddies have gone, or why their messages aren't getting responses, because this isn't documented anywhere." Google really messed this up. Such a dick move.
The Tizen Greek Community has some screenshots of a very recent build of Tizen running on a Samsung GT-i8800. It looks wholly unremarkable.Joint statement to The Next Web from Microsoft and Google: "Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube's API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks. Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during this time." Good to know these children stopped acting like little pricks. Can we have full Google support in Windows 8 now, please?
Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr, the microblogging and social networking website, for $1.1 billion USD. Tumblr offers little revenue but lots of eyeballs if Yahoo can monetarize them. Now Yahoo is bidding for Hulu, the streaming video service. After years of ineffective responses while Google, Facebook, and others took large chunks of the online advertising market, Yahoo is fighting back. Can Yahoo reignite the momentum it had at the turn of the century? What do you think?
"Sources have described iOS 7 as 'black, white, and flat all over'. This refers to the dropping of heavy textures and the addition of several new black and white user interface elements." I couldn't be happier.
"Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues."
"Google is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said." Sucks to be Google today, apparently."In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans. In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing 'Talk' platform with a new one called 'Hangouts' that sharply diminishes support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP (or sometimes informally Jabber), and also removes the option to disable the archiving of all chat communications. These changes represent a switch from open protocols to proprietary ones, and a clear step backward for many users." That's why I always say: only suckers trust companies."The wave of departures is a sign of internal struggle, but amidst all the bad news, there is a glimmer of hope. According to an anonymous HTC executive cited by WSJ, the crucial HTC One is selling 'pretty good so far'. The executive revealed that HTC sold about five million One units since launch, a performance that is deemed encouraging. However, sales have been limited by the persisting supply issues that still plague the production of the HTC One." Finally some good news for HTC. Five million units amidst supply constraints is very impressive.
"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. Weâll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that itâs usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.
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2005-11-05
- Novell was not making money on SUSE
- Novell have invested a lot of effort in Mono
- Novell are bulding a large Mono stack for Gnome
- Novell had to cut costs
You can complain as much as you like, but that will not change the situation.
So instead lets focus on what needs to be done with Gnome:
- Performance has to be better
- Media files needs to work
- More eye candy!
- More and better System GUI tools
- Firefox and Gecko needs to improve
- Usability, usability, usability
There is one big BUT in the Gnome camp, and that is the use of Mono. Red Hat are not thrilled and Novell are manic about the development platform. Will the community fork?