Comments on: Suse co-founder leaves Novell

Hubert Mantel resigns, saying company is no longer the one he founded 13 years ago.

[SqlserverCode]

The rats are leaving the sinking ship

How many companies are still using Netware?They've got Microsoft, Sun, Red Hat and a few others desperate to eat their lunch.
Let's see what happens to the Mono project

http://otherthingsnow.blogspot.com/

[josprey]

Ximian is destroying Novell and SuSE

It is becoming increasingly clear that the Ximian people have grabbed the reins and are steering Novell into oblivion. Suse was a successful Linux leader. Now that the former Ximian people are in control, they are dismantling it. Ximian failed to generate any real revenue, but they are still trying the same strategy with Novell. It's failing again. Novell will be out of business soon if they continue to let these fools have any say in their business operations.

[Bill Dautrive]

I hope this doesn't hurt SuSe

SuSE is a top notch distro, and it would suck if something bad happened to it. It is a distro that any old timer can dig his teeth into and one a total computer novice can cut his teeth on.

[dean2354]

Suse must make major changes

Redhat is making money because their OS is easier to install, easier to use and easier to update compared to Suse.

Suse installer is slower than a pig. It usually takes twice as long to install Suse.

Their kernel implementation is a piece of crap. Linux novices have no F* idea how to update the kernels or compile driver sources. It is a piece of crap.

I cam go on but I hope Suse people listen and fix Suse. It can be much better if Suse listens to people like me who would like to support Suse but I won't support Suse until they fix their problems.

[ackursus]

You ned a fix too....

I must be a real novice writing this crap, ever tried to use the setup that came with the SuSE distribution ?.

First of all you don't hav to do any thing other than answer ordinary setup questinons. Second you don't need to do any kernel update or compile drivers - Yast will do i all for you, either while installing or with Yast online update any time you like when the OS is running - everything for free, and without any deficult registration and extra configuration as with Redhat.

Further more SuSE is one of the best Linux distributions I know when it comes to support of hardware, and especially wireless and wpa is working right out off the box - last i gave Redhat a go, there was even not any clue of these things.

So hopfully SuSE continues this good work, even despite the real brains is leaving. And hopfully Novell won't destroy the nice work the founders have done to make it a real linux alternative to the properitary one(s) - which include keeping a fully supported, and default KDE desktop.

[ackursus]

You ned a fix too....

It must be a real novice writing this crap, ever tried to use the setup that came with the SuSE distribution instead ?.

First of all you don't have to do any thing other than answer ordinary setup questinons. Second you don't need to do any kernel update or compile drivers - Yast will do it all for you, either while installing or with Yast online update any time you like when the OS is up and running - everything is for free, and without any deficult registration and extra configuration as with Redhat.

Further more SuSE is one of the best Linux distributions I know when it comes to support of hardware, and especially wireless and wpa is working right out off the box - last i gave Redhat a go, there was even not any clue of these things.

So hopfully SuSE continues this good work, even despite that the real brains is leaving. And hopfully Novell won't destroy the nice work the founders have done until now, to make SuSE a real linux alternative to the properitary one(s) - this including keeping a fully supported, and default KDE desktop.

[heart4uganda.org]

Bad news for SuSe users

No one knows exactly what drives a co-founder to leave his baby behind and move elsewhere but I can tell you out of personal experiance that this is not an easy move! One wonders what the motive was for Novell to takeover Suse.

Being a SuSe-Linux user myself, this does make one a little worried. What will the future of our distro be? It used to be known for being an easy-to-use and stable disto, but where is it going?
Maybe it's time to change to the mainstream and join the red-hat users group...