Andreas Jaeger wrote:
I've just send out to people that report to me the following request and
like to share it with you so that you know what's going on if you see
discussions starting and can look at the webpage as well.
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openSUSE 10.3 is a really great release and I'd like to thank you for
your participation on it. To take a break and some inspiration I'd like
you to take some time now (let's say two days) and look at other current
distributions and operating systems and check what they can do better,
or how could we improve our products.
Looking at operating systems, I consider the following most interesting
but feel free to look at others as well:
* Fedora 8 Test 3
* Ubuntu/Kubuntu 7.10 Beta
* Mandriva 2008
* PCLinuxOS
* Windows Vista
* Mac OSX
I suggest to install at least one of these products on real hardware
and evaluate the distribution and try to get ideas for our next
product.
* Look at the installation, what do you like and hate?
* Check the area you're most familiar in, e.g. printing, and see how
it's integrated, e.g. configure a printer and print some documents.
What is different compared to openSUSE 10.3? Where is the user
experience different?
* Use the machine for some work, play around with it. How do you like
it?
Please write down your experience on the openSUSE wiki at
http://en.opensuse.org/Distro_Inspirations - and if you see things
that you like to discuss, discuss them on the opensuse-factory mailing
list.
Try to evaluate the distribution from a desktop user perspective - and
if you want to evaluate it differentely, please state it.
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Andreas
One thing I forgot to mention in my previous post, Ubuntu has a thriving
community of contributors. Every week I see a number of articles on how
to do this or that on Ubuntu, usually appearing on linuxtoday and
slashdot amongst others.
One such article referred to me on this list did fix a problem I had
with grub when I removed a dying hard drive which was /dev/sda and the
previous /dev/sdb became /dev/sda.
Many of the Ubuntu HOWTO articles address how to do stuff that is also
applicable to openSUSE, though references throughout is about apt-get
and dpkg. Many of the solutions to problems offered on this list would
make good articles --- I must have a good look at the opeSUSE wiki, I'm
sure there is noteworthy stuff that describes HOWTO on openSUSE, but the
openSUSE angle never gets stressed enough.
If you have Ubuntu and you want to know how to do something specific,
there is almost always a result from a google search.
Regards
Sid.
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