James, you truly rock with your dead-on responses below. Its going to be great having you join us at the hackfest. These are excellent talking points and should definitely be incorporated into http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Talking_points
See you next week. Will be good to finally meet you. Bryen On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 11:10 -0800, James Mason wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 00:59 +0530, Manu Gupta wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > What does openSUSE focus on > > > > 1. Do we focus on Desktop? > > Yes > > > 2. Do we focus on Servers? > > Yes > > > 3. We say we focus on balance,but what does that actually mean? > > It means that openSUSE is the *only* complete, well-rounded > distribution. Only openSUSE provides a single installation media that > is equally suited to Servers, Virtual Servers, Workstations, Desktops, > Laptops, Netbooks, Tablets. > > > > > I ask this because > > > > 1. We are not as polished as a Desktop > > In comparison to ? More than one press outlet has reviewed openSUSE as > having the cleanest KDE implementation. And no other distro provides > KDE, Gnome, LXDE, XFCE, IceWM, TWM, FVWM, all completely usable, all on > one media. > > > > > 2. Our life cycle is not suited for Servers / Sysadmins. > > Our lifecycle is fine for servers. I've been using it on servers since > 7.2. The choice to upgrade and stay current, or leave a running server > as-is is up to the SysAdmin. > > > > > 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 > > > > openSUSE is extremely flexible, and hides the inherent complexity of > that under a layer of well-engineered tools (esp. YaST). Our installer > provides not just one-click options to choose desktop, but also > one-click software patterns for LAMP stack, Kernel development, Ruby on > Rails, etc. No other distro offers that flexibility, and quality, in a > single distribution. > > Ubuntu, more than any other annoys me on this front. > > Ubuntu guy: "Here's an Ubuntu CD. It has a really easy to use desktop. > Try it out!" > Linux user: "Okay, but I prefer KDE." > Ubuntu guy: "Okay, here's a Kubuntu CD instead." > Linux user: "I noticed you didn't emphasize usability on the Kubuntu" > Ubuntu guy: "Umm... its basically stock KDE." > Linux user: "Okay, I also want to build a lightweight file server for my > home network." > Ubuntu guy: "Oh. Here's an Ubuntu server CD." > Linux user: "My daughter is using an older laptop - can I try out LXDE > on it with any of these 3 CDs?" > Ubuntu guy: "No, but you can download Lubuntu. But we don't support it, > its not 'official'." > Linux user: "What's that mean - I thought Ubuntu was free? What > support?" > Ubuntu guy: "You can buy support for the 'official' versions." > Linux user: ":/" > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
