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Information Technology News Linux desktop gives Novell the edge on Red Hat: Hovsepian
Information Technology News Linux desktop gives Novell the edge on Red Hat: Hovsepian | Linux desktop gives Novell the edge on Red Hat: Hovsepian |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 11 April 2006 | |
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Page 2 of 3 “My intention is in the (American) summer, you should be able to pop the box open and fire her up,” Hovsepian says. “Why we created Open Suse.org was for the kernel to build up a feedback loop for us. We very closely manage that relationship between the developers and the community who give us feedback through Open Suse.org.” So what’s the end game as far as the Suse distribution is concerned? “Our goal from our customer’s perspective is to let them know that they’ve got strong support and ecosystem behind the Novell Suse Linux,” says Hovsepian. “That means the Suse Linux has a whole big company behind it. In terms of the community, what we would want them to know is that we’re really just playing the role of a trustee to continue to develop things in the open source spirit while making sure that our commercial customers and their commercial needs get met. “We’ve got a list of 50 open source projects that we’re participating in but, at the end of the day, if you’re running your business on this stuff you need to know that you have the right support infrastructure, a toll free number you can call and get the right level 1, 2 and 3 support., which we do for our customers. So we would want to position Suse Linux to really be that enterprise class support, service and quality of Linux. We also want to continue to work with the community by making the donations that we have with (security) products like AppArmour.” And what of the many rumours that have circulated that Novell plans to kill off its KDE desktop interface and move forward with the increasingly popular Gnome? Hovsepian says the rumours are false. “We absolutely support both KDE and Gnome. Both of those are critical things in our distribution, that will not change and you can quote me on that.” |
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