Qt styling adds flair to the OpenSUSE installer
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| Novell's second Hack Week event is taking place right now and developers are
| writing blog entries about some of their projects. Artist Jakub Steiner, who
| is best known for his work on GNOME and OpenOffice.org icons, has written
| about the new installer for OpenSUSE 11 which uses the CSS-like styling
| capabilities of Qt 4 to provide an aesthetically rich interface.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/02/19/qt-styling-adds-flair-to-the-opensuse-installer
FOSDEM 2008 - This Weekend!
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| This weekend (23-24.02) the openSUSE folks will again go to Brussels to one
| of the most important developer events in Europe: FOSDEM.
| For all openSUSE users we will again have an openSUSE devroom, which means 2
| days full of interesting presentations about the openSUSE universe.
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http://news.opensuse.org/2008/02/19/fosdem-2008-this-weekend/
There are reports about some folks protesting against Novell's participation in
such events (because of the Microsoft partnership). Novell still struggles.
Here is a post about a chat with a guy replacing one who recently quit the
company:
Can Novell 4.0 Catch On With Partners?
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| During its prime in the early 1990s — call it Novell 1.0 — the company had a
| robust channel organization and 60 percent server market share. Software,
| hardware and VAR partners eagerly displayed the “Yes” logo as a sign of their
| commitment and support to Novell NetWare. Then came Novell 2.0 — the
| mid-1990s, which was highlighted by several failed software acquisitions like
| Unix Systems Labs and WordPerfect. Novell 3.0, according to The VAR Guy,
| involved a flawed consulting push built around 2001’s Cambridge Technology
Partners acquisition.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/02/19/can-novell-40-catch-on-with-partners/
Related:
Novell congratulates itself for snogging Microsoft
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| Novell wants you to know that selling its soul to Steve Ballmer was a really
| good idea.
|
| On the last day of 2007, two separate Novell execs tossed up blog posts
| congratulating themselves for agreeing to that "interoperability partnership"
| with Microsoft, a year-old deal intent on forcing an unholy relationship
| between Linux and Windows.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/03/linux_pats_self_on_back/
Microsoft Making Millions Off Novell Linux
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| Evidence is emerging that Microsoft is making money, lots of it, from
| selling 'certificates' for Novell's SUSE Linux. Microsoft gained the right to
| distribute the certificates a little more than a year ago under a marketing
| and technical alliance with Novell.
|
| [...]
|
| So, while Linux -- free software that competes with Windows -- may still be
| a "cancer" for Microsoft, the company has found a way to profit from it.
| That's a good trick . . . perhaps Microsoft should next enter the
| pharmaceutical market?
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/microsoft_makin.html
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| [Allison: ] "Yes, that's true, actually. I mean I have had people come
| up to me and essentially off the record admit that they had been
| threatened by Microsoft and had got patent cross license and had
| essentially taken out a license for Microsoft patents on the free
| software that they were using [...] But they're not telling anyone
| about it. They're completely doing it off the record."
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http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/02/11/1443211.shtml
Novell: 'No One Can Stop Us From Selling Linux'
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| It was reported that those changes would preclude the inclusion of Linux in
| third party distribution deals such as the one Novell recently signed with
| Microsoft and "ban" Novell from selling future versions of Linux.
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197003452&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
Why is there no Open Source SLES ?
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| One of them is that the SLES community is much smaller and more aimed at
| proprietary software. Novell itself is promoting Mixed Source and promotes
| its own proprietary software on top of SLES (also see OES). This obviously
| scares part of the community away. The deal with Microsoft obviously does as
| well. As a result Novell is big within Enterprises with little community
| people, and these are not the kind of people that would spend their free time
| rebuilding packages and do QA.
|
| Another reason is that Novell is not in favor of such a project (even though
| people from within Novell _and_ people in the SLES community disagree with
| management) because it fears it will take away some of the profit and Novell
| made a big risk by taking the Linux route, they cannot afford to make it
| fail.
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http://dag.wieers.com/blog/content/why-is-there-no-open-source-sles
Is it Microsoft + Novell or Microsoft vs. Novell?
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| Actually, this is very surprising. I've started to notice a trend in all the
| announcements the two companies have made over the past year: Novell stresses
| interoperability while Microsoft beats its drum on patent protection.
|
| [...]
|
| I wonder how long Microsoft will continue its efforts to try to cast the deal
| as about IP. It's not for Novell, it seems to me now. Microsoft did the deal
| to hurt Linux - there's no other explanation for it. It has no fiduciary duty
| to enable a competitor (unless its a weaker competitor against the Linux
| market leader, Red Hat). It has a fiduciary duty to kill that competitor.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9813681-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Novell uses Microsoft FUD to market itself
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| That these claims also could be taken to mean that Novell is developing a
| non-standard Linux, one that is skewed only towards working with Windows,
| appears to have escaped Novell.
|
| In other words, Novell has an "in" with Microsoft which Red Hat does not;
| Utah and Redmond are in bed together and Red Hat is an intruder.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/14695/1091/
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