On Wednesday 25 May 2011 17:26:48 Kim Leyendecker wrote: > Am 24.05.2011 15:38, schrieb Okuro Okiawa: > > Well, and exactly that's the reason, why openSUSE and Linux in general > > is mostly common in nerds or IT freaks (besides the Linux Servers). > > The question for openSUSE now is, which direction should be chosen: > > (1) reach more users or (2) let away all the "user-friendly" stuff and > > keep the distro clean of mostly useless stuff. > > > > I cannot really decide between the two options... For me personally, > > (2) is the best option, but (1) would make openSUSE more competitive > > in the OS-market. (In this regard, Ubuntu is a step ahead.) > > This is one of the reasons why I would prefer two openSUSE releases. One > "Personal" release for the users, who aren´t so savvy at all, and one > "Professional" release for the users, who say, that they don´t need such > stuff for help and user friendly apps, but more devel-stuff or > network-software. > > But I think, the disadvantage of this bi-released-openSUSE is the fact, > that maintaining and care about the two releases is more more difficult > then "just" maintaining *one* single DVD-version and the KDE/GNOME live CD. > > But I think this doesn´t belong to this thread actually, and if anyone´s > interesting in continue such discussion, just open another thread or > mail me privacy. > > -kdl > > PS: By the way, what´s on with the strategy discussion? Is there any > result, or any things that needs to achive? Afaik it´s in freeze-mode > till the foundation is founded, is that right? Nah, there was a blog by Thomas Thym, who has been involved with that. He wanted to push it forward. I'm not sure exactly what his plan is there, so I CC'ed him and he can tell you if he wants :D
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