Renaming this forum?

With Novell now starting to phase the SUSE name/branding out, how long will it be before this section of the forum is renamed to reflect this change?

What'cha talkin' bout Willis?

With Novell now starting to phase the SUSE name/branding out...

Link to an article please?

This may well be, but the just released 9.2 is SUSE.
Why would you need a forum renamed before the product is?

And I might as well add, when will Novell Linux 9.3 be out? Anyone know yet?

Just that it seems that way with SUSE's website content being switched over to Novell, and with Novell Linux Desktop coming out to replace the existing SUSE offering.

They announced today that "Novell Linux Desktop 9" will be available Friday, so a change to "Novell/Suse" or something along those lines may make sense. Thoughts? Any input from the Novell members?

--jeremy

Originally posted by jeremy They announced today that "Novell Linux Desktop 9" will be available Friday, so a change to "Novell/Suse" or something along those lines may make sense. Thoughts? Any input from the Novell members? --jeremy

Jeremy,

I've been thinking about that myself, especially with the recent release of Novell Linux Desktop.

Here's what I think:

since a majority of people who come to LQ looking for answers might only know the name of their distro, I propose keeping Suse and steering discussing of Suse-Centric (9.2 and earlier, especially 8.2 (the last version for PPC) and 7.3). In other words, they may not know or care about SuSE being bought by Novell.

But, create a new forum, perhaps for Novell Linux Desktop?

some issues will be shared between them, in as much as some issues are shared between all flavors of linux, but some issues remain vastly different.

Or, you could put it up to a vote. Despite what nuka_t et al may say, democracy can work in some instances ;-)

We appreciate all the work you do here at LQ, Jeremy, you're the best.

I was under the impression that Novell were going to maintain SuSE as a sort-of "Home User" desktop edition, and push Novell Linux as the Corporate version. Essentially the same product, but with a few tweaks here and there.

I am up for the forum's name to be changed - I don't think having "SuSE and Novell Linux" in the title will confuse people.

I agree with Thymox, wit the addition that should Novell decide to drop the SuSE branding, we should still call it "Novell/SuSE" or "SuSE/Novell" so as to keep continuity and not confuse new members with older versions.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/08/131228

I'll second XavierP's comments, that if a name would be done, it would be modest, and still contain the "SuSE" name as either "Novell/SuSE" or vice versa. -- J.W.

I would say keep the SuSE forum and add one entitled "Red Hat buffs who are sick of Fedora"

kidding of course

The SuSE/Novell idea is great, it would get people to specify more in thier post headings, which is always great practice!

They pretty much dropped the name and use their name to try and sell the product now. In fact they replaced the suse logo's with that ugly N they love to use so much. Novell/SuSE would be a great name for the forum, because Novell is the now and SuSE is the past. Oh and I happen to be one of those that got fed up with Fedora, especially once I seen the mess that was Fedora Core 3, and just switched to SuSE. I love it, and hope they only end up changing the name and not the product! Oh and if you have SuSE 9.2 Pro, Novell Linux 9 is just SuSE 9.2 Pro but Novell Logos and a few tiny changes here and there.