Novell Linux Desktop 10

[Squalor]

http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=13532
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124571,00.asp

It seems Novell people want to see Linux take off. What they will be offering in NLD10:

- MP3 out of the box
- F-Spot integration (publishing, managing photos)
- iPod integration (Banshee)
- Software for translating Visual Basic macros in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet documents into their equivalent in StarBasic
- XGL?

If what they promise is true, this distro is gonna rock hard.

[kewl1uk]

Well, if they're basing it on SuSE 10 they won't be doing a lot for Linux. SuSE 10 has a hardware config error which causes the install to hang at the hardware detection stage on some computers which doesn't look to be solved. Personally I think SuSE 10 is misreading the graphics card because it freezes when the graphics card is detected. I think I posted elsewhere that I have not had a relatively bug free version of SuSE since 8.2 and it was the attempted install of SuSE 10 which prompted me to look elsewhere whereupon I found Ubuntu on the DVD with Linux Magazine.

Whether it's Novell 10 or SuSE 10, look elsewhere!

[Lord Illidan]

This is good news. The more linux gets recognised on the desktop, the more it will benefit other Distros. The competition is not Novell, it is Microsoft and Apple.

I like the way that Novell opensourced their multimedia player. They are a good company, imho.