On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Langsley wrote:
> On Sunday September 11 2005 8:39 am, Peter Flodin wrote:
>
> > The confusion will just get worse if we don't fix it now.
> >
> > I have followed this thread with interest, and I think it has
> > highlighted some very important points.
> >
> > If the users on this list, some who I know have been active on this
> > list for weeks, are confused about what openSUSE is, how is anybody
> > else expected to understand?
Peter, I have to admit that we did a poor job in communicating the naming
- but I guess that's changing now ;)
> > The confusion is quite simple as we have received all of the
> > following statements:
> > 1. Novell wants to sell a product called SUSE Linux. No "Pro" or
> > "Personal", just SUSE Linux.
> > 2. SUSE Linux is a distribution created and maintained by the
> > openSUSE project.
> > 3. SUSE Linux OSS is an Open Source Software
> > edition of SUSE Linux.
> To that list let me add:
>
> 4-Also, remember openSUSE isn't a "Novell product". It's a community
> Linux, that is supported by the Linux community.
>
> 5 There are two names and distro's : openSUSE and Novell SUSE.
Correction: There are three names and two distros: openSUSE (the project)
SUSE Linux OSS (the distro that only contains open source software) and
SUSE Linux (available in retail, a superset of SUSE Linux OSS, includes
printed manuals, installation support and some commercial addons). Oh, and
I almost forgot Novell: That's the company that acquired SUSE some time
ago and is sponsoring the openSUSE project ;)
> 6- That's right, openSUSE isn't a product at all, it's a development
> project that feeds into the product that is SUSE Linux.
>
> 7- openSUSE 10.0 is inexistent. It's SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS, which will
> very soon supersede the "stable release" SUSE Linux Professional 9.3.
Sorry for nit-picking: It's SUSE Linux OSS 10.0 - the retail version will
be called SUSE Linux 10.0.
> > What I don't understand is why SUSE Linux OSS is not just called
> > openSUSE Linux, which means that in 6 months time we could have: SUSE
> > Linux 10.0 in shops. openSUSE Linux 10.0 (stable) on mirrors to
> > download openSUSE Linux 10.1 RC1 (development) on mirrors to download.
> >
> > It has to be clear by using name only (not by reading a wiki - though
> > I do love them) what the hell we are all doing here.
I recall having had very lively discussion on the naming earlier this
year. However, this thread proofs that we will have to go over this
again... ;) But for now (for the 10.0 release) we'll have to stick with
the current naming.
Regards
Christoph
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