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As promised, after individual presentations at last week's CommunityOne I brought together the community leaders of three of the top GNU/Linux distros (Zonker Brockmeier, OpenSUSE; Jono Bacon, Ubuntu; Karsten Wade, Fedora), threw in Glynn Foster of OpenSolaris and moderated a no-holds-barred panel. (It took them three hours to clean up the blood afterwards!!) Although the panel itself wasn't recorded, immediately

Zonker Brockmeier, OpenSUSE; Jono Bacon, Ubuntu; Karsten Wade, Fedora), threw in Glynn Foster of OpenSolaris and moderated a no-holds-barred panel. (It took them three hours to clean up the blood afterwards!!) Although the panel itself wasn't recorded, immediately

Zonker

openSUSE’s Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier shows how to use Verizon Wireless’s EVDO cards on Linux, including of course, openSUSE. read more | digg story

of open source, like the development work, are spread out over many more people and companies. I can't speak for the entire industry, but I'd rather see an open source project create jobs for hundreds of people rather than making one billionaire. Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier works for Novell as the openSUSE Community Manager.

of open source, like the development work, are spread out over many more people and companies. I can't speak for the entire industry, but I'd rather see an open source project create jobs for hundreds of people rather than making one billionaire. Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier works for Novell as the openSUSE Community Manager.

We are happy that we have again a community project at our booth, this time it’s Linux-Club.de, a big German Linux forum. If you are interested in the Novell Enterprise products, we will have also a counter with SLE. You can also meet Zonker for the first time in Germany! - openSUSE day: one day, packed with talks, this time on Saturday! Look at the schedule for more information, we think that there is something for everybody in it.

with Zonker

sales executives have started calling the Suse Linux Enterprise Server coupons “royalty payments”" –Matt Asay, April 21st, 2008 The headline is just a game of words and nothing personal, but mind the following take on OpenSolaris, courtesy of OpenSUSE’s community manager: Ultimately, I can’t help but think that the problem that Sun is trying to solve with OpenSolaris is not a technical one, but one of control. Specifically, the company is not ready to cede control over its operating system to the community at

talking up opportunities its systems management partners. Specifically Quest, Novell and Xandros are all on board with functionality to enable System Center users to manage third party applications on top of Windows, Linux and Unix. In fact, if you read Joe Brockmeier, Microsoft’s new Linux management capabilities are all “thanks to Novell”. One question that remains is whether users will trust the management of their Linux an Unix servers to Microsoft. My guess is that the new cross-platform