Novell's open source effort looks more aggressive than Fedora

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: PHIL HOCHMUTH ON LINUX
08/24/05
Today's focus: Novell's open source effort looks more
aggressive than Fedora

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Today's focus: Novell's open source effort looks more
aggressive than Fedora

By Phil Hochmuth

Novell's recent move to release a version of its SuSE Linux
operating system as free, open source software should give the
vendor a boost in credibility with the open source community,
while building its base of users running the Linux flavor.

Dubbed the OpenSuSE project, the move mirrors Red Hat's Fedora
Project, where the Linux vendor released an unsupported, freely
downloadable open source version of Red Hat without some of the
core enterprise features the vendor charges for in its
"subscription-based" Red Hat Enterprise Server line.

However, Novell is going a step further than Red Hat, offering a
packaged version of the product, complete with documentation, as
well as a downloadable version.

The company is also offering users the opportunity to get
fee-based technical support for OpenSuSE. The first release by
the project was SuSE Linux 10.0 beta, with more beta versions to
follow over the coming weeks and months. The company claims to
have more than 2,500 registered members so far.

While SuSE source code was available in the past, users had to
pay to get a compiled, usable operating system for servers or
desktops. By creating the OpenSuSE project, the vendor is
building itself another resource for software testing, bug
reporting, and a big, virtual online suggestion box for new
features, which should help improve the quality of Novell's
commercial SuSE offering down the road. The OpenSuSE Web site
also features a "wiki" documentation section, where users can
post and edit each other's release notes and comments on the
software as it is released to, and tested by, the community.

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<mailto:phochmut@nww.com>.
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