RSSNovell Renames Consumer Linux Distro
By the Betanews Staff | Published August 10, 2006, 11:43 AM
Novell said Thursday it was rebranding the consumer version of SUSE Linux in an effort to spotlight its open source roots. The product has been renamed "openSUSE," which echoes the name of the open-source Linux project the company sponsors. The current version of the product is 10.1, with 10.2 due to ship later this year. Additionally, the new branding separates Novell's free community-based product from its standard enterprise distribution.
The openSUSE.org project has about 30,000 members, and version 10.1 recently passed 350,000 verified installations, Novell said. "The spotlight is shining on Novell's Linux offerings, as shown by the great success of the year-old openSUSE project and the tremendous reviews received by our SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 products," Novell chief marketing officer and senior vice president John Dragoon remarked.
Now...I love linux, but i keep finding programs the keep me glued to Windows. (Girder was one for a long time, then AutoGK)
I always find it somewhat laughable that some linux distros make it a little harder to dual-boot linux AND windows and how many people zero in on that. I mean, yes. It's something we've all been doing for a long time now and every linux distro out there should be able to detect windows partitions and automatically set up the boot loader correctly by now...
but how many people have tried to get the windows boot-loader to do the dual booting? yes, it's possible. No it's not legal and no it's not fun. At least linux lets you do it...
My gripe is how stinking long it takes to boot linux still. Is it true that suse has been cutting down boot times as of recent?
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|hmmmm OpenSUSE... sounds fun, can't to explorer her functions
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|Isn't this what RedHat did with their desktop offering a few years back by splitting their product line up? Looks like Novell also figured out that no one wants to pay for the desktop versions of Linux.
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|I'm using Suse 10.1 64bit on my desktop pc dual booted with Win XP X64(games /sigh) and then on my Laptop which is a Suse(32bit) only laptop.
The hardest part I had was getting the wireless card to work on my laptop and some funky boot mapping I had to so grub would boot win xp partition correctly. Other than that it's a really awesome distro especially after you get Smart installed so you can download a ton of software.
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|he hardest part I had was getting the wireless card to work on my laptop and some funky boot mapping I had to so grub would boot win xp partition correctly.
And people why Linux hasn't gained more consumer market share? ;)
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|It's fun when you randomly dropping words every in a while, eh?
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|Yeah, especially when some distros seem closer to each other than they actually are, and other seemingly unrelated ones are almost the same thing.
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|I loved SUSE 10, I haven't tested 10.1 yet, maybe I'll wait until 10.2 comes out to reinstall it. I've got 10 running on a virtual pc on my laptop. It was the first time I ever really sat down and played around with Linux seriously.
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|If I'm not mistaken, 10.0 was released with proprietary codecs, (MP3, DVD, etc...)
I haven't looked at Suse much.
Are they still doing that? Is it (Suse Linux) any good? (Compared to say Ubuntu..which has none of those codecs, or freespire, which does.)
Curious, but not curious enough to actually try it unless I hear really great things about it...
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|10.1 is pretty good. They updated yast and all the usual stuff (Gnome, KDE, apps) but it doesn't have something like Automatix (which rocks for U6)
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|So after 10.0 they dumped the codecs?
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|I bought a retail boxed copy of SUSE 10. If you try to play DVD's using Kaffeine SUSE gives you a message stating the codecs necessary to play DVD's cannot be included for legal reasons. Also, during installation while I was browsing the available software packages I got a similar message about MP3 codecs.
SUSE Linux has never included propietary codecs.
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|Then I heard wrong.
Never used it. *shrug*
That'll teach me to take any stock in comments on slashdot.
http://linux.slashdot.or...193662&cid=15880842
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|"That'll teach me to take any stock in comments on slashdot."
The last person on earth has finally come around.
Today is a good day.
heh
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|Hay, I *make* some of those comments on slashdot.
Oh, wait...
...nevermind.
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|I dunno. Sorry. I've searched all over opensuse.org and cannot find a clear link to "What's New" for 10.1 posted anywhere. Does anyone know if there is such a link?
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|LOL
Slashdot is on my *once a week maybe if I need a laugh* list.
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|Why not name it SuseQ and license the song for commercial ads? :)
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|Because that would just annoy the hell out of everyone?
*grin*
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|True. But that's what marketing people do best, isn't it? :)
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|yet another attempt to steal media spotlight ;p
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|I thought it was already named openSuse. Geez. I must have missed that memo. :(
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|The community project was named OpenSuse, but not the distro itself.
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|Ok, so this amounts to zero. "New package, same great taste"
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