Re: [Sheflug] Suse 7

[wulfie <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
I don't dispute there are behind the scenes improvements/changes, but a
jump from 6.7 to 7 implies something major (to a simple minded fool like
me anyhow), and since 2.4 & kde 2 are around the corner maybe 6.5 would
have been a better designation - if it wasn't for the version number arms
race anyhow. Ruediger Berlich was a little circumspect about the
appearance of a 6.5, but if memory serves me right I'm sure he mentioned
October/November for the next major release.

If Ruediger is listening in, perhaps his inside line would shed some light
?


> >>>>> "ps" == Paul Sims <wulfie [at] wulfric7.co.uk> writes:
> 
>     ps> I agree that it looks like 7 for 7's sake. I though Linux was
>     ps> about more than keeping up with a numbers race ?
> 
> I happen to know that the SuSE people working on I18N are rather
> pleased with themselves.  They've done quite well at complying with
> the Li18nux 2000 standard.  (I assume; I haven't used the product, let
> alone done a serious evaluation, but I respect the developers
> involved and trust them about it.)
> 
> Users who are mostly monolingual in English will not see the
> difference, of course.
> 
> I would guess there are other behind the scenes differences that
> probably matter more to Corporate Support than to Wanna B. Hacker.
> 
>     ps> We'll have to see whether Desktop V Pro (doesn't that sound a
>     ps> little Win2k to you ?) splits the SuSE market and loses custom
>     ps> rather than consolidating the potential user base.
> 
> I agree with this, though.  The multiple similar products scenario
> really only works when the high end distribution is tightly
> controlled.  This has gotten Turbolinux into lots of trouble (their
> cluster and high availability products were hedged with proprietary
> language, despite apparently being based on GNU GPL code).  I think
> it's partly responsible for their long-term problems in the US market
> and the recent bloodbath in the executive and US development ranks.
> 
> 
> 

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