Miscellany

[Thu Jan 24 2008] [09:00:54] <orc_orc>  heh -- http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080124/aqth028.html The openSUSE Build Service Expands Support to Red Hat and CentOS
[Thu Jan 24 2008] [09:03:30] <toracat>  orc_orc: so, what are they (Novell) up to ?
[Thu Jan 24 2008] [09:04:12] <orc_orc>  toracat: I think attacking the RHEL brand through a side door
[Thu Jan 24 2008] [09:04:27] <toracat>  hmmm
[Thu Jan 24 2008] [09:04:51] <orc_orc>  next question for a thoughtful CIO is: why bother with SLED, and not just use OpenSuSE
[Thu Jan 24 2008] [09:04:57] <orc_orc>  so this is a two edge sword
[Thu Jan 24 2008] [09:08:41] <toracat>  "We do provide two talks from FOSDEM"
[Thu Jan 24 2008] [09:08:50] <orc_orc>  It also hands ORCL a nice second solution of a published buildsystem that works on RHEL sources, to go with whatever (non-FOSS released) version Wim C is using), and so empowers ORCL -- why would NOVL do that?
[Thu Jan 24 2008] [09:09:01] <orc_orc>  toracat: ... having been conspicuously absent at OLS
[Thu Jan 24 2008] [09:10:01] <orc_orc>  It may be just a rogue PR piece that NOVL corporate did not know of, in advance of FOSDEM in a couple weeks.
[Thu Jan 24 2008] [09:10:09] <orc_orc>  but that seems unlikely