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OpenSUSE Governance.
How are decisions that affect the direction of OpenSUSE development made? Should community members as well as Novell staffers be part of the Core Team? It's all up for discussion.

A while ago there was some discussion on opensuse-edge about renaming that branch of the development tree. I suggested Factory.

Today, the Edge branch was renamed to Factory. I'm really honoured to have contributed this small thing to the community.

Roger: Haaretz (pronounced: Ha-Aretz) means The Earth, or The Land (as in The Land of Israel).

I don't mention that for any other reason than to show off - I've been studying Hebrew

Got the latest Tango this morning, thanks to supplementary/GNOME, and it's really shaping up well. Great to see a few more new icons each time I update.

GNOME Power Manager is heading for a major release, and so I've updated the en_GB translation this morning.

Well, no.

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The government has suffered a heavy defeat, losing by a margin of 322 to 291 on the plan to allow police to detain people for up to 90 days without charge. An amendment put forward by a rebel Labour MP setting the time limit at 28 days passed by a margin of 33 votes.

Now, while I would prefer the limit to have remained at 14 days (or even been reduced), 28 days is nowhere near as bad as 90. I applaud parliament for not just giving the police exactly what they what powers they requested. There is a term for societies where that happens, it is a Police State.

What was entertaining was seeing Michael Howard and Clare Short in agreement: They both called for Blair to resign. Hopefully it won't be much longer before he does go.

I owe Hubert a debt of thanks. Working for SUSE was the most enjoyable and productive time of my entire working life, and had he not had the vision to start such a crazy project, I would never have been able to do that.

All the best for the future Hubert.

Stephan: Thanks for the info. You're right in so far as I've never actually bought a copy of NLD

So, I hadn't realised it was a straight impartial choice at install time, however it always seemed to me that Novell preferred GNOME - whenever I saw screenshots produced by Novellians (and admittedly, primarily from the Ximian side ), they were using GNOME.

My personal view, as most people know, is that I prefer GNOME, always have done. That said, I do think that both desktops should be included, and allowed to have as equal a footing as possible. Resources should be put into both so that end users (or customers as some people call them) have a choice. Free Software is supposed to be about choice.

So, the world's been awash with talk of Novell "switching to GNOME", so let's clear some stuff up:

It's just on Novell Linux Desktop (NLD) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Now, NLD is Novell's enterprise desktop product, I'm pretty sure it's always used GNOME, because it has its roots in the period between Novell buying Ximian and them buying SUSE.

In all honesty, if it weren't for the fact that this story covers SLES (and anyone who runs X on SLES should be taken out and shot as a kindness to themselves and the servers in question) it simply wouldn't be news.

Many thanks to radoeka for mentioning on the packaging list the answer to LenZ's observation that Maximum RPM is seriously out of date.

Maximum RPM's apparent successor.

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Blunkett resigns from the Cabinet for the second time. let us rejoice and be glad that this corrupt reactionary has again been forced out of front-line politics, and hope he never, ever returns.