Mike Dzikowski wrote:
Yes, I just wanted to hear some general comments on other countries usage of
Linux.
SuSE hitory in France was pretty complicated
at the end of the 90', SuSe was just after RedHat in term of
use (My first choice in 1997). Then SuSE was dealing with
problems with it's french distributor (I don't know exactly
what), but the net result was the dropping of the french manual.
That was the same time of Mandrake beginning to be very
agressive (on distributors price list) and until Novell
come, SuSE become very rare in France (very difficult to find)
It was also deprecated in french LUGs because "not GPL". I
always think this silly, because it was non GPL only because
there where in the cd some demo non gpl things, but the suse
itself was pretty near of gpl.
so we face a quite difficult situation to reset. All the
words about Novell firing people and stopping Kde received a
ridiculous amount of echos on LUGs lists.
However, I hope the OpenSuse politic will stay and SUSE
grow, because it's still the best ever distribution.
I gave last spring an admin course with suse 9.0 and one of
my student tries to apply the same with debian and fail :-)
jdd
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