Novell Buys Suse

[lloyd-fEEwcc3XMu8jODpR/OX0VQ at public.gmane.org]

Yes, that is correct, YAST is closed source.  "UnitedLinux" uses YAST as
well.

I will likely continue to run Redhat on at least one of my machines as I
work with a lot of corperate Linux users, ie they are running closed
source Linux applications on RedHat.

I think with Fedora that it will be a good community distribution that
continues forward more quickly than Debian in the core server areas --
these will be driven by RedHat.  Possibly, in the desktop areas its
progress may slow some, but RedHat does have it's WS Edition. If the
Fedora community flourishes this also will help.

Cheers,
Lloyd


> 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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