It's not easy for a Linux company to let go the reins of control over its community Linux distribution. Just ask Red Hat, which started to let go of Fedora and then decided to keep managing it (Red Hat keeps its grip on Fedora). But, now Novell is loosening its apron strings on its community Linux openSUSE.
The first step was to allow a community-elected board to take charge of the project. While Novell still has a large say, the company appoints the chairman and half of the board's members come from Novell, the community of openSUSE developers does get a larger say in the popular distribution's direction. Details at -- > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/newss/6570/1/ http://en.opensuse.org/Board -- Patrick Patons Ocira you can predict that some actions will be calculated to be unpredictable _______________________________________________________ Copyright (c) 2008 OCIRA.net - Creative Applications. All Rights Reserved. tel: +256 704 008818 | Kampala, Uganda ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
