[Lancaster] Microsoft Getting Paid for Patents in Linux?

[Richard Smedley]

> >> But I want to carry on using SuSE. I'm familiar with it, and from
> >> a user point of view it's a crackingly good distro, despite what
> >> all you Debian frieks believe.   ;-)

> > i am not really a Debian freak, although principally I am a
> > supporter and therefore I have chosen the pragmatic option of
> > Ubuntu with third-party non-free repos enabled - now with
> > Ubuntustudio emerging it is really kicking off, i think/hope :)

> I guess that if I were to move over to another distro, it might be
> Ubuntu or rather Kubuntu (I don't like Gnome!).

Hello Ken,

Speaking as a Debian user ;^), I'd say if you want to stick with SuSE,
but not want to financially support Novell, then be happy with
OpenSUSE. The developers behind it are a great bunch of guys, and
although it is financially (and in other ways) linked to Novell, it is
still a Free Software distro - and one with a great community :-)

btw KUbuntu will be great when KDE4.0 and beyond arrive - KOffice plus
Konqueror plus KDE has a far smaller memory footprint than OOo plus
Firefox plus GNOME, and future KDE releases will be a lot less messy
than earlier desktops ;-)

 - Richard
(using PWM as a desktop ;)

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