European Wafaa

Why is it that people always forget the good side of things and always focus on the less than happier items? Just listned to some podcasts that have been building up whilst working in Amsterdam, and one of them was LUG Radio Season4 Episode9.

I normally enjoy listening to LUG Radio, but they appear to have taken the stance of bashing Novell and all things related to them including SUSE/openSUSE as a result of the announcement with Microsoft. As it was the last episode for 2006, they had a "Predictions" segment, one of the predictions was that there will be only 2/3 major community distrobutions - Ubuntu (surprise, surprise!), Fedora and Debian. They reckon that openSUSE will dissapear as Novell's focus is purely enterprise related.

As they like to say on the show CHIN! Do they forget that SUSE has been around since about 1996, and has a huge community attached to it. They also reckon that if Novell ceased support for openSUSE the community would not be able to pick the baton up and and run with it. Sorry but a definate pile of crud.

So Novell ceased sponsorship of Hula, that doesn't mean they are moving away from community projects, they have managed to get Messaging Architects to take on the sponsorship role and keep the project going albeit in a slightly different direction that some would have liked.

Bongo has managed to pick the baton up when Novell couldn't give a quick enough response to requests, as a new fledgling project I think Bongo has done pretty damn well. We now have a superb looking Wiki - thanks to Sebastian for the final artwork and Luis for making some good comments on the initial work; Michel for setting up the forum; Jonny for doing the documentation; Alex and Patrick for hacking (more hackers required ); Alex for his leadership; but most importantly ALL parties involved regardless of their technical abilities.

So in a nutshell LUG Radio - Kiss your chin as you're spouting so much bull!