Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 3rd Dec 2005 17:03 UTC, submitted by Carondelet
An observing poster at the Ubuntu forums unearthed what he says are screenshots of the upcoming Novell Linux Desktop 10. "I was snooping around for details about Novell Linux Desktop 10 and stumbled upon an internal Novell Desktop Design wiki. Most of the pages were unavailable without logging in but I found a few pics by going through their 'Recent Changes' page." So, are they for real? My take: Whether these are real shots of NLD 10, or just 'mere' mockups, they in any case show that Novell is willing to differentiate itself from its competitors. Which is a good thing.
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2005-07-06
My, my. There's abviously a lot of people very tetchy over this subject logging in multiple times and using up their points. If you want to reply quote and come up with e decent reply:
They want the same accounting packages etc. etc. So instead of Novell prettying up the desktop, how about getting some bloody ISV's onboard and producing the applications required.
Well, that's the ticket. However, it's not as straightforward as it might sound. You need good development tools and a good base framework, but you also need the supporting desktop infrastructure there to do it. That is so much dedicated, focused and hard work to be done you simply can't put it into words. Novell will never achieve it if they worked non-stop for ten years, and they'd also be throwing money away on developing code they'll give away for nothing. It simply won't work unless they rethink how they're going to go about it. Glossing it over with eye candy is a very bad idea. I've lost count of the number of developers who've hidden problems behind screenshots of their software.
It's Novell's funeral, because if they are moving all their desktops to Linux (the NLD - the only people using it!) then they have to make sure they have a sustainable ecosystem (I hate that word, but it's accurate). Novell always stated that moving to desktop Linux wasn't about replacing Windows, but they are replacing Windows! There's a lot of stuff that comes along with that. That means they need to have good open source software for most purposes, yes, but they also need the support for their desktop for ISVs to create specific software they and their customers need as well as the paraphernalia (knowledge base, documentation etc.) to support that. It's huge.
The worst thing that could happen is that Novell have to publicly crawl back to Windows on the desktop, tail between their legs, and that would be extremely costly. However, that's what could happen if this runs out of steam. From the top down, I don't think Novell have any clue or conception of what they've undertaken or the areas which they need to work on to ever make this viable.