El Sábado 10 Septiembre 2005 18:16, Langsley escribió: > When I first learned of openSUSE I assumed it would be > somewhat similar to the Fedora/Red Hat offerings. That is, > that there would be two separate and distinct distros. I > don't see how one can have two separate distros with one > name. Or is there genuinely an openSUSE distro either > presently or planned for the future? Is there now a genuine > community distro of SUSE or is the download version simply > like other download versions of commercial distros? That is, > basicly a less complete (for lack of a better term) version > of the commercial product.
What I understand is there's 3 different things: SuSE Linux, Novell and OpenSuSE. SuSE is a linux distro with its own tecnology. Novell is the owner of the distro and has the last word on it. OpenSuSE is a backdoor to the distro where Novell invites people to create/organize a community on touch with Novell. Once here, OpenSuSE people can use SuSE to work in his own projects like SUPER or SLICK. This projects, Novell can take advantages of them or not for the main distro, SuSE linux, because they take charge of making it. And this projects will get advantages of Novell's work on SuSE Linux too. For me, is not as in Fedora that looks like RedHat experimental distro. Where the community developpement can improve comercial RedHat distro but RedHat didn't open one of their commercial distros to the community; they are just supportering Fedora. Here, Novell take care of SuSe; new distros based on SuSE must be done by the community. There's SUPER and 1CD Installer as a community products based on SuSE tecnology; not Novell products. I think is a clearer model because each part knows the limits of the playground as Daniel said. May be I'm wrong and I really don't understand the meaning of OpenSuSE, beeing my english bad :) I hope you can understand me, and if you want to correct me, I'll apreciate :D Cheers, -- http://rabadilla.net http://www.augcyl.org/planet/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
