On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Langsley wrote:
> Sorry for yet another dumb question, but there's been lots of, what
> seems to me to be, conflicting info about openSUSE, SUSE-10; what is
> Novell and what is community owned/controlled/created/designated/what
> ever.
First of all, there really aren't any stupid questions, just dumb answers.
> Earlier we were told that openSUSE is just the name or the project and
> that the final product would be simply SUSE-10. and that it is a Novell
> Product. At least that's the way I understood it. Today Joseph Smith
> said: "Also, remember openSUSE isn't a "Novell product". It's a
> community Linux, that is supported by the Linux community. Again, much
> like Fedora. As a matter of fact, you don't even see openSUSE on Novell
> product list site!
>
> 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.
Let me give you a short explanation on the naming and the openSUSE
project:
- openSUSE is the development project to open up the development process
used to create SUSE Linux to the community.
- The distribtuion that we all are working on is called SUSE Linux.
- SUSE Linux is available in two "flavors":
* SUSE Linux OSS - a version of SUSE Linux that only contains open
source software. This version is available for download on all the
mirrors our there.
* SUSE Linux - that's the retail version: It can be regard as a
superset of SUSE Linux OSS, which also contains some proprietary
bits, binary-only drivers and stuff like that. Not to mention
end-user documentation, installation support and MP3 playback
support.
- Note: The packages that are in SUSE Linux OSS and SUSE Linux are
binary-identical.
Regards
Christoph
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