2009/1/17 Vnpenguin <vnpenguin at vnoss.org> > 2009/1/17 Phan Vinh Thinh <teppi82 at gmail.com>: > > > > A long time ago I maintained their Vietnamese wiki pages, now they > > asked me to find somebody can do this not-very-easy task. I have no > > business with Novell. Anyway I'm Debian/Ubuntu user and support free > > software ideology. > > > > Theo nh?ng g? t?i bi?t th? openSUSE (nh? l? c? ch? "open") kh?ng ch?u > s? ki?m so?t v? chi ph?i c?a Novell, c?ng gi?ng nh? Fedora v?i Redhat > v?y th?i. Cho n?n nh?ng g? li?n quan ??n ho?t ??ng c?a openSUSE kh?ng > nh?t thi?t ph?i c? m?i li?n quan (tr?c ti?p hay gi?n ti?p) ??n Novell. > > ??m openSUSE c? th? mu?n m? r?ng & qu?ng b? cho d? ?n ch?ng n?, nh?ng > t?i kh?ng ngh? r?ng kh? c? t? ch?c ch?nh ph? n?o c?a VN tha thi?t v?i > distro n?y. V? sao ? ??n gi?n ch? v? Ubuntu (v? c? th? Fedora n?a) ?? > qu? ph? d?ng v? c? s? l??ng ng??i d?ng r?ng r?i r?i. > > Good luck for openSUSE in Vietnam :-) > -- > http://vnoss.org >
The situation in commercial Linux Market is easy to boil down : a) the first to enter the market and the first contributor to open source project starting with the kernel, gnome and such : Red Hat. Anyone who does something serious with linux usually go with Red Hat. They have a community project called Fedora that has some interesting features (online desktop, virtualization, clusterization). Almost all Red Project are free and open source. They also have a desktop but who actually have seen it ? b) Novell Suse is the other one who use to be the contender but Novell is hardly an OSS company they have tons of proprietary applications. They just happened to buy Suse and enter the Linux market with it. They also had to get help from Microsoft so you can also buy Linux Novell from Microsoft if you want. . They have a community project called OpenSuse, it's good and have also an interesting control panel called YAST. c) Canonical with ubuntu who's trying to eat some market share starting by the desktop (which is different from the two others) had some success but still has to prove it. There's no "community project" in Ubuntu unless you consider debian this way (which isn't). You can use vanilla Ubuntu LTS in your mission critical systems (you would not do that with openSuse and Fedora) Almost all Canonical projects are also Free and Open source. The problem with Ubuntu/Canonical is they need to contribute more upstream. My conclusion is : if you want to build your infrastructure around a commercial linux and you care about freedom and want nothing to do with Microsoft you either go with the market leader (Red Hat) or the smaller but quite bullish and "sexy" contender (Ubuntu/Canonical) if you care less about freedom and independance you can go Novell and Suse route Other may think otherwise -- David Tremblay IT analyst mob: 418-208-3631 jabber: ict4ngo skype : ict4ngo Blog : http://blog.ngowiki.net -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pi?ce jointe HTML a ?t? nettoy?e... URL: http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20090117/da961d42/attachment.htm
