Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (441 mails)

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On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Alberto Passalacqua
<alberto.passalacqua@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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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I have been reading articles recently about Novell specifically their
financial condition and, of course, OpenSUSE.  I to am beginning to
wonder where OpenSUSE lies with Novell and are we just test subjects
for their improvement of SLED and SLES.  Is Novell trying to get
computer makers to place SLED on their systems and where does that
take OpenSUSE in this area?  Are we going to be just a home user
experiment or can we come up with a strategy to entice users to use
our operating system as a main part of their daily routine in using
their computers?  If we push to hard and users start adopting OpenSUSE
and Novell loses users for SLED what will Novell do with OpenSUSE?
These are just some of the questions we as the community need to start
looking at.  Since I have never read exactly what was in the take over
of OpenSUSE by Novell I do sometimes think about this for our future.
I am not saying this will happen but what if Novell falls upon dire
financial straits is there anything we can do as the community to keep
OpenSUSE going without Novell telling us to stop and desist?  Or
better written do we have plans if anything like this does occur?

PeterPac
www.InNetInvestigations-Forensic.com
SuSE 10.2/SuSE 10.3/TriStar/Apache
SuSE 11.1
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