On Martes, 15 de Febrero de 2011 20:12:27 Bryen M. Yunashko escribió: > 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: ":/" >
I did read an openSUSE Ecosystem article by James Mason some time ago. It is one of the best article I have ever read about openSUSE Project. It's has a very didactic vision. And I think it would be very useful to bring it back fresh and make it available for marketing talks with James permission. Regards, -- Ricardo Chung | openSUSE Linux Ambassador a.k.a. amonthoth -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
