Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Schlander wrote:

> Mandag den 21. juni 2010 17:38:57 skrev Per Jessen:
> > Martin Schlander wrote:
> > > http://en.opensuse.org/Documents/Strategy/Poweruser
> >
> > Interesting proposal.  I'm a little uncertain about the
> > term "poweruser" and the explicit de-emphasizing "old hardware"
> > and "non-mainstream architectures".
>
> A poweruser is not a Linux expert, but a person who is comfortable
> using a computer, can follow instructions, read, doesn't run away
> scared by the sight of a checkbox or an error message, etc. The type
> of people that support other people and install and configure their
> operating systems for them, and advise them what distro to choose :-)

Check.

> By old hardware I mean less than 512 megs of ram or so. But of course
> we shouldn't break support for old hardware just for the sake of it,
> my proposal is just that openSUSE should be a modern OS for modern
> computers - if it works on old stuff then fine, if it doesn't that's
> just too bad.

That is a much better way of phrasing it.  

> Non-mainstream archs is currently everything except x86 and x86_64. So
> there's not really a change from the current status.

Check.



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Per Jessen, Zürich (14.3°C)

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