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Posted in Fork, Java, Microsoft, Mono, Novell, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice, OpenSUSE, SUN at 3:01 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
EARLY REVIEWS of OpenSUSE 11.1 were mixed, but the more recent ones were slightly better. There are several types that we rarely include here as that would be perceived as an ‘attack’ on a ‘community’ (never mind if OpenSUSE is truly controlled by Novell). To give just one example of OpenSUSE disappointments, there is this one guy who tried it before finalisation (GrandMastering):
=> mixed | slightly better | ↺ this one guy
…I sold my soul to openSUSE and then I stole it back…
I don’t know if it is the right place… But I just want to renew my appreciation to Ubuntu…
I wanted to try something different, so I installed openSUSE 11… It was a mess… shortly after the installation I could not update, because the update engine freezed up… My viedo card was not recognized… so I installed the driver from the official site… It took me 3 hours to make it work.. And so on…
More interestingly, this Vista-themed blog claims that the OpenSUSE 11.1 Live CD can damage hardware. Is this true? Can anybody verify or falsify?
If you want to run the openSUSE Live CD, you must think about it twice. Because a critical mistake can ruin your PC. There is a configuration file “/etc/sysconfig/clock”, who sets the Hardware clock when the PC is rebooted or halts. The trouble is that some old motherboards do not update correctly (or the opeSUSE’s code is wrong). This “default” configuration can ruin the hardware and affect to other systems.
Meanwhile, someone in Digg has submitted old news that's a Novell attack on OpenOffice.org, but the modified headline is ugly. “The future of Open Office.org is at risk,” says the title and it reached the front page. It’s important never to allow Microsoft/Novell to destroy OpenOffice by taking control or momentum away from Sun to promote .NET and OOXML (with patents) at the expense of Java and ODF. That’s just what they want to achieve with the fork, Go-OO[XML][1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Microsoft is once again controlling its biggest rivals via Novell. Other sites are well aware of this problem.
=> old news that's a Novell attack on OpenOffice.org | ↺ The future of Open Office.org is at risk | patents | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ↺ well aware of this problem
The issue with Go-OO is that it is badly influenced by Novell. In the name of interoperability, the dirty M$ technologies are infused to it by them. On the other hand, Sun’s OpenOffice is a heavily branded one.
We strongly advise people not to approach Go-OO[OOXML] or SUSE. Only this way Novell might get the message and reform its behaviour. █
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