sure hope they keep some of the german developers, would be a plus. will be interested to see what happens to the suse forums, web site, etc.

Ive been using linux to stay away from talks about $ and shares and things of the nature. From what Ive read it sounds mostly good. No opinion really.

one small step for SuSE, one giant leap for Linux.

First post, here:

When I first heard about it, I thought it looked like good news that a "real" company thought Linux was worth investing in. (Please don't ask me to come up with a logical reason why I think of Novell as more "real" than Linux, OK? I guess it's just one of those "feeling" things.)

I thought it was a sign that some of the anti-MS companies had finally realised that, if they don't get their acts together, they're all gonna get burried.

But, then I notice that SuSE was the second Linux company Novell's bought, and I start to wonder. Why buy two distributions? The only reason I can think of is: So you can kill (at least one of) them off.

So, now I don't know if this is good news or not.

I have SuSE 9.0 and would appreciate the opportunity to ask a few questions. Why is there no forum?

suse has there own forum is probably why they don,t want one here, quess you can,t blame them. maybe it will change after novell takes over-

http://www.suseforums.com/

man, thats just stoopid. i got it for free.

LOL..

Hey how did you get Suse for free??? I thought that was the non-downloadable distro..

i copied that demo cd to the hard drive.
i think you can still download all the packages by ftp.
they just don't have iso images for free download.

sorry about the stupid joke. my sense of humor gets extra weird
when i'm really tired.

I just booted my laptop with this Suse demo disk and so far I like what I see. It set up all of my hardware (even my wifi card) and acpi during boot. I had to recompile RH 9 twice to get this kind of hardware support. So what is the catch? What is the downside of Suse? Right now I am at the point where I will be buying this distro as of tomorrow, unless I find something that bugs me.

So any anti-suse people out there and why?

I think that publicity like this is awesome for the linux community. One important thing to remember is that the more and more hardware and software manufacturers here of linux and the bigger the names get the more we'll see coming from them in terms of compatability and extra attention.

>$210 mill only? What a bargain
I'd guess they only make about $5 on each boxed set they
sell. They need to sell a lot of box's to make that much
money back.
A company can buy one suSe set and install it on
as many PC's as they want. If the market for linux distro's
ever becomes huge then there will be plenty of competitors to
SuSe. Plenty of companys will support linux for money.

$210M in cash is a lot. This sort of deal is often mostly
a stock swap. I don't think Novell got a bargain.
AFAIK SuSe was a privately owned company so they could simply
refuse to sell if they didn't like the deal. Netware couldn't
buy a majority sharholding and get control.

>What do you guys think of buying Novell stocks?
I'm out of the stock market at the moment, not just
because I don't have got any spare money at the moment.

Novell seems like a company desperatly looking for a high-volume
product to sell. Netware is in decline. I think sales of software
in general can only go down over the next few years.

In my opinion Novell is a high risk investment, I'd only consider it
if the price/earnings ratio was 8 or less.

>ended the day lower than they started! Up $2.40 and then down..
The day to day price changes of stocks are mostly random and
partly driven by the company being mentioned in the media, even
if the news seems irrelervant on careful analysis.

Yeah, I would still be a little weary about buying tech stocks, at least until things pick up a bit and maybe show who will be around next year. I hope for the best with Novell/Suse and have gone so far as to buy the pro version of the distro in order to support Novell's bravery in publicly announcing its intention to back Linux.

Well I ended up bailing out of RH. I waited until they hit around $12.50, then bought 2000 shares again. Since then they went up to about $13.80+- Still lost over $5000..... All RH needs is 1-2 good announcements and it will be off again...

Walter

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