Novell Buys Suse

[Fraser Campbell]

On November 4, 2003 02:59 pm, Justin Zygmont wrote:

> haha, and maybe if they decide to finally open source suse, then redhat
> may have more of a competitor if Fedora is a catastrophy.

Haven't looked at SuSe in years, what parts are not open source?

Redhat had me pissed of about a year and a half ago, for all their talk of 
being open source they implemented a proprietary update mechanism.  AFAIK, 
there is no documentation on the up2date protocol and  there is no free 
up2date server from Redhat (there were a few works in progress to implement 
one at the time that I looked).

Apt on redhat was an easier to use solution anyway as it turned out but at 
that time I was still under the notion that if I was using redhat I should do 
things the redhat way ... using apt on redhat at work was the first step to 
all-out conversion from redhat to Debian anyway, so it worked out well  ;-)

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