If you go and read it you'll notice this:
After all the hell storm Novell set loose last year by saying it wanted to drop KDE, people were, understandably, left in a little confusion whetether the KDE experience on SUSE would be miserable in the future, which it quite frankly is on Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora in my opinion, thanks to their "uglifyng" BlueCurve theme.Apparently there is some confusion caused by bad coverage: it's the successor of Novell Linux Desktop 9, a rebranded NLD 10 - if you like to say so - which gives you the choice to use either KDE or GNOME
If we go back to the blog posting that I mentioned above and read a bit more:
Which to me, as the KDE addict that I am, sounds wonderful, because I don't think GNOME people should have a miserable experience neither. BOTH KDE and GNOME is included in the support of the forth coming SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, GNOME is the default desktop though, but it gives the user the choice of both early in the installation process, so quite frankly it's the same as being a GNOME user and a Mandriva fan, which is no big deal, because you can just pick GNOME during the installation process and you'll be fine.As Nat Friedman stated to some press you will not lose functionality when you choose to use KDE: every desktop's applications will run on the other desktop, OpenOffice.org will integrate into both equally, desktop search is available under both and Xgl/Compiz (if supported on your graphic card) is desktop-agnostic too.
I don't think Novell is more or less geared towards KDE than they used to be, they just picked GNOME as the default environment, but they still very much include and support KDE, and I think that if they plan otherwise, I will they will have a big roar in the face from the userbase.
Just as a sweetspot, if we, once again, go back to the blog post and read the last bit:
Remember the NetworkManager project that Red Hat originally started? Well, it looks as if SUSE has that one in the bag with a KDE frontend it for it, which they've been hacking on for a little while now, and I think it's officially part of the main NetworkManager project today. There's a link to another blog post with a nice screenshot of it: http://blog.nouse.net/wp-content/upload ... er-vpn.pngAlso the KDE desktop inherits from SUSE Linux 10.1 nice stuff developed at SUSE like kpowersave and knetworkmanager which other distributions maybe will only adopt in their next but one release.
I'm quite excited about NetworkManager, because I'm also getting to be a bigger fan of the idea of using a VPN in more places, one thing you'll notice about hotels providing internet access, try turning on Ethereal when you're in a room and stand back!
Most hotels are still using a hub, not a switch people, so everyone can just grab the different packets flowing by and see people's email passwords capture all kinds of scary stuff, and heck if you were to use insecure, aka standard POP mail, through that connection you could have your password sniffed, if you were using a VPN then you wouldn't.
