“There have been several published stories and there has been
some forums chatter recently to the effect that Novell is
emasculating KDE and SUSE. The gist is that Novell/SUSE no longer
is supporting KDE. Novell/SUSE now is GNOME-centric, the
Ximian/GNOME forces within Novell are pushing out the SUSE/KDE
forces, and so forth. And one recently published opinion suggests
that Novell is planning to dump its SUSE Linux products…“In 2003, Novell acquired Ximian, a GNU-Linux, software
development company and principal commercial sponsor of GNOME, a
Linux desktop environment. Then in January 2004, Novell acquired
SUSE, a KDE-centric Linux distribution provider…”
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