[sles-beta] static libraries

[Waite, Dick]

Grand Sunny Saturday,

Well its there in black and white, wish I had been there but water under bridge now. Like editors, Display Environments are very personal. I have been SuSE and SUSE since the 90's and KDE has been my desktop. I do hope its stays with openSUSE, I have not seen any "dropping" words from that source. We have made use of KDE's features for any years so it will take time to change. Our US customers are more Redhat and KDE is alive and well in v7 so for them its business as usual but in Europe and Asia its more SUSE and KDE, so work to be done, or thinking to be done first then work.
I'm trying to get two samples of our QE and App_Dev machines past the "Update" phases and with Beta7 we are still trying on both zLinux and x86_64.
You did publish SUSE will drop KDE, we missed it and I think a few others did. I follow openSUSE as to what SUSE is going to do next, try out new idea's, new features etc. Fedora seems to lead the way for RHEL.
We have done very little application testing and building with SUSE v12 because we can not get these machine to that level. New install does work, but that is not what we need, we Update the Operating Systems and check all is well, then maybe at nn-SP1 we start compiling the application and check that they work. Working on the idea, never change more than you need to, first the OS then the APP. Customers like to know their database is in safe hands, Evolution not Revolution, but on the Tablet and front Ends there is a fast change.
A gave Google the words "SUSE drop KDE", on .com there is not a lot to see, one entry from Nov 9th 2005 says SuSE exits KDE, and the words are not good words, on .DE that entry is there but very little else. There are a lot of very +ve words from SUSE about KDE ;o)

Okay time to push on, water is under bridge, lets think and plan what we do next.

__R
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From: Matthias G. Eckermann [mge at suse.com]
Sent: 30 May 2014 18:32
To: Waite, Dick; 'Thorsten Kukuk'; 'sles-beta at lists.suse.com'
Subject: Re: [sles-beta] static libraries

Hello Dick and all,

On 2014-05-30 T 14:26 +0000 Waite, Dick wrote:

> You do have a grand grasp as to when and where SUSE
> changes were / are documented. Where was "drop KDE"
> documented before the v12 Kick-off meeting?

We (myself and other members of the product management
team) talked about SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 and its
focus at SUSECon 2013, and our annual conference to me
seems the right place for this kind of discussion,
before the product is not even in beta.

See the session overview at:
http://www.susecon.com/archive-2013.html

Or more specifically (starting slide 11):
https://www.suse.com/events/susecon2013/sessions/presentations/FUT1405.pdf

> Have You all a grand weekend.

For you as well.

so long -
        MgE

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