Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (441 mails)

[Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@xxxxxx>]

> What is even worse , according to this http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7255
> the only netbook to carry any version of SuSE
> is now not doing so, that is 7 out of 7 running something other than
> SuSE. No netbooks for my family this year ;)
> This is an important detail to me as these are largely going into
> children's hands and umm, I started the openSUSE EDU
> project. Please lets help HP and Lenovo come home!

How do you think openSUSE can make it on netbooks if Novell is pushing
SLE there, clearly not understanding that the target user is different,
and, as a consequence, people is not interested in an enterprise
desktop, but wants something more flexible?

Another consideration is that to push openSUSE on netbooks, Novell would
have to grant level of qualities of two distributions, SLE and openSUSE,
while currently they have formally no obligation with respect to
openSUSE.

In other words, I don't see any chance for openSUSE on netbooks if
Novell doesn't wake up from the "Enterprise only" dream, and starts
concentrating also on _actually_ making openSUSE what its slogan say:
"The most usable Linux for home users". In this respect, I am very
interested on the focus discussion, which should start sooner or later,
about openSUSE goals.

Regards,
Alberto

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