For me, openSUSE is a desktop-distro. I often introduces it as "the
perfect desktop for you" But we´re not just into the desktop-market. I
installed openSUSE 11.3 as a server, and with Tumblweed + Evergreen we
have two projects, that gives us the chance, to be on some different
markets. I think, for server, we need more than 2 years of support. But
theirs SLES, and support you can get from Novell... So why should be
openSUSE a server-distro!?
As a short answer:
In my eyes, openSUSE is a desktop distro. The best you can get. We have
so much supported desktops. Their is KDE, GNOME and LXDE. Than Xfce, you
can use IceWM, or just a lightweight X Window System..... For me,
openSUSE is perfect for desktops
cheers
kdl
Am 09.02.2011 02:21, schrieb Kostas Koudaras:
2011/2/8 Manu Gupta<[email protected]>:
Hi all,
What does openSUSE focus on
1. Do we focus on Desktop?
2. Do we focus on Servers?
3. We say we focus on balance,but what does that actually mean?
I ask this because
1. We are not as polished as a Desktop
2. Our life cycle is not suited for Servers / Sysadmins.
3. Nor are we exactly rolling releases, might be tumbleweed but there
are 100s of old packages too
I think we should be able to change that with 11.4 release atleast that
helps a lot. So if we do not decide it soon, we will certainly go under
an already existing identity crisis which is not good for the community.
We should regardless of anything, yes even the strategy (although more
alligned with it is preferable) must have a few plans to focus on for
11.4 release. Attracting a particular audience should change a lot of
perspective outside the community.
Regards
Manu
Apart from what Bryen said about directed to the wrong list I think
that you are underestimating openSUSE. Today I traveled to Larisa(a
city about 150 klm away from my city) in order to attend to a
presentation of KDE 4.6 that one member of the Greek openSUSE
community was one of the speakers. After the presentation we went to a
tavern along with people who use other distributions like Kubuntu and
Gentoo and some others, at some point we all agreed that openSUSE is a
polished desktop distribution(by polished I mean quality) also we all
agreed that now-days openSUSE has an identity as a distribution and as
a project. Now I only mention that because I was probably the only
person there who was not a developer to a project and that
strengthened my believe to the openSUSE Project even more. Of course I
believe I don't have to say that I am saying all that friendly, you
know that :-)
Stuart
For netbooks you should try the KDE Plasma netbook
(http://www.kde.org/workspaces/plasmanetbook/). I am using it for
almost a month and I am really satisfied and impressed about its
speed. Note that I used to have gnome and before that I had tested
Ubuntu netbook remix 9.10 some time ago.
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