[Lancaster] Microsoft Getting Paid for Patents in Linux?

[Ken Hough]

Richard Smedley wrote:
>>>>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.   ;-)
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>>>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 :)
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>>I guess that if I were to move over to another distro, it might be
>>Ubuntu or rather Kubuntu (I don't like Gnome!).
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>Hello Ken,
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>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.
I use Open SuSE, presently v10.2 on the main PC, and am happy with it.
> 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 :-)
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Yes, I've always been able to get good support when I've needed it.

Ken