READ THIS http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php...18-26-OP-SS-NV

Those are views of one developer and are not entirely accurate. Suse is not being dropped at all by Novell, but they seem to be killing KDE in favour of GNOME in SLES and Novell Desktop. This is one thing I feared when Novell bought Suse and Ximian. Its a pity they won't provide both desktops as options, I know some people who are impressed with Suse 10, but prefer KDE, so SLES and Novell Desktop are now out of the question for them. Anyway there are other enterprise class distros that still actively support KDE, so its Suses loss in that department.

First off I think the original view from the developers is innacurate, and totally obsurd.

I do not like the fact of GNOME > KDE, because I myself am a huge KDE fan (I actually switched from Gnome to KDE).

I think the linux world now needs both, but in the future I would like to see KDE prevail (damn im greedy),.

It makes sense to pick either Gnome or KDE. Otherwise they have to split resources, money and development on them both. Compare also to the latest Slackware release which dumped Gnome in favour of KDE.

I agree that it makes sense but previous versions of SLES were standardised on KDE although GNOME was included. This causes problems for people who already use SLES with KDE as default, particularly if they want to upgrade to newer versions of SLES. In the case of Slack, there were already third party packagers providing, in my opinion, better gnome builds than Pats, so at least there was some sort of compromise.

I tried GNOME first, didn't like it, stuck with KDE...

The fact they changed the default doesn't bother me, I use gentoo

Suse denies it. Read the article below

Suse denies the accusations made in that "opinion" based news article

The KDE guys are just ticked off because SuSE is going to default to Gnome and so this guy decided to spreaad around a little FUD. I guess we know the name of at least one guy who was cut.

Personally, I think it's a mistake for them to go with Gnome as many newbies are far more comfortable with KDE, but I'm sure KDE SuSE builds will still be made available to anyone who wants them.

They don't deny that they are not going to be shipping KDE with SLES and NLD.

masonm this about Suse Linux Enterprise Server and Novell Linux Desktop and not Suse Linux. KDE will be available on Suse Linux, according to the press release.

Yeah, I caught that as well as it would still be available on OpenSuSE. I'm just addressing this thread as written (check the title)

If i understood correctly, GNOME is going to become the default interface on Novell desktop (or whatever it is called) and SLES.

I think this is really a step backwards. That novell desktop edition has always sucked anyways, and now with gnome as default it's getting even worse.

Hopefully they don't touch KDEs default position in normal Suse (10.1 and above).