Novell Buys Suse

[Justin Zygmont]

I just remember having a lot of trouble with yast, and then discovering 
that's it's closed source.  


On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Fraser Campbell wrote:

> 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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