Questions for this week's guest, Greg Mancusi-Ungaro

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:05 am

Just in case there's a need for questions for Greg, here's some of mine:

1. How did the launch of the openSUSE project go?
2. What's next for the project?
3. How are multimedia support going to be dealt with in the future?
4. What's the deal with the recent debate about Novell dumping KDE?
5. Why do enterprise oriented distros often favor GNOME over KDE?
6. What do you see as the superior desktop? And why?
7. Who will replace Hubert Mantel as maintainer of the SUSE Linux kernel?
8. How big is the demand for the boxed version of SUSE Linux?
9. What's in store for Novell Linux Desktop 10?
10. vi or emacs?

The reason I'd like to ask Greg about the debacle with KDE at Novell is because he works there and came to Novell from Ximian

Post by **Patrick** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:55 am

Excellent questions. Thanks

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:02 am

Patrick wrote:Excellent questions. Thanks

No problem, happy to help you guys out

By the way, the reason I included the one about multimedia support is that SUSE has for a while now had some issues with multimedia support, especially when Novell bought them. For example the version of Xine shipped with SUSE has had some of the potential patent violating features taken out, of course it's understandable why Novell do that, but at the same time, it provides yet another hardship for new users to get that multimedia support back. I should add though that it's not that difficult to do, I've guided newbies through it over the telephone so I'll give Novell/SUSE that much credit that they don't put anything in there that stops you from eaisily adding stuff like VLC and MPlayer.