On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Martin Schlander wrote: > Torsdag 13 juli 2006 13:49 skrev houghi: > > Great news. Not so much the name, but taking away the confusion. > > You think this will end confusion? > > - Many of us have been trying to explain to people that the distro is SUSE > Linux for the last 10 months. These people are going to be confused. > > - Many people have been running SUSE Linux for years, but don't follow the > news - they're going to be confused when they go to the store and the retail > box says "openSUSE".
I agree totally. I am not sure what to say about this news. > - I already anticipate a lot of people being confused about non-oss being > available on the openSUSE dvd (assuming that'll still be the case on 10.2). > And we'll still have to do a lot of explaining. Most people will expect > that "open" means pure open source. > > - There's a huge infrastructure of forums, websites, irc-channels etc. that > will be obsoleted and have to change their names. Probably some of those > won't change their domain name - that will cause confusion too. > > - On the short term any name change will cause confusion - after all most > people know that SUSE Linux is the correct name. I think this is an other marketing ployee. I really prefered the SUSE Linux name. Now I am not sure what to think. I think this may cause more problems than it solves. > Besides this namechange makes me feel like SLED/S is the "real" SUSE - and > SL/openSUSE is lowest priority (kind of the same feeling I had when the > package management changes were forced through after feature freeze), I > expect a lot of other people will also see this as a sign of SL getting lower > priority - which can harm the distro. > > Also hereby a lot of the history that SUSE name had is lost. The name is also > too long. In other words - I don't like it. > > Furthermore the namechange will steal attention from the community project. > People will think openSUSE is just the name of the distro - and noone will > know or care about the project. > > ALL the people I know who actually use SUSE would have preferred to keep that > name. All the people I know who likes openSUSE don't know what it's about - > and don't use SUSE Linux. > > All in all I think this decision is made 100% for the benefit of SLED/S - with > little or no consideration for the many, many loyal and active SUSE Linux > users. > > Current mood: Don't know whether to cry or break something. +2 > To be fair I do see some benefits: > - Maybe now we can have everything on one server - unlike both > ftp.opensuse.org and ftp.suse.com > > - A lot of people seem to like the name - hence it's been so damn hard trying > to explain to these goofballs it's not the name of the distro. However I > believe most of these people liked the name because they thought that > openSUSE was non-Novell and 100% non-oss - and something different than SUSE > Linux - and for some reason they liked that idea. I just hope this is not a signal that our beloved SUSE Linux is becoming a lower priority. I found it very consistent from bottom to top. Now I am not really sure. I was able to start companies off with SUSE Linux and move them to SLES. Now I am afraid this is going to confuse them and make it harder to get customer to move up from openSUSE Linux to SLES. Having everything the same name made for a consistency. Well we will have to wait and see if this helps or hinders the cause. -- Boyd Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
