Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (229 mails)

[Holger Hetterich <hhetter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Montag, den 08.11.2010, 17:11 +0100 schrieb Martin Schlander:
> Mandag den 8. november 2010 16:38:10 skrev Juergen Weigert:
> > On Nov 08, 10 16:27:12 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
> > > pb@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 12:44:33 +0100
> > > >
> > > > Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > create and distribute the world's most usable Linux
> > > >
> > > > Yes!
> > >
> > > +1.
> >
> > I like it! Quite ambitious!
>
> That is exactly what was on the openSUSE wiki frontpage for years.
>
> It was bad then, and it's even worse now, because "usable" is either just an 
> empty phrase that can mean whatever anyone wants it to mean, or it means 
> "Aunt 
> Tillie distro" - which we have spent months establishing is a bad fit for 
> openSUSE and doesn't reflect reality.

There's also "create" and "distribute" in the sentence, which makes a
lot of difference for me. For example, the openSUSE build service makes
it easy to distribute. And of course, it is a helper for development,
knowing how your project compiles on other distributions. The "world's
most usable Linux" is something that depends on the users look at it. I,
as a user, see the whole phrase as something like: "Ok, they want to be
usable, even for my grandma, and by the same time create something new,
innovative, and maintain it !".

And actually, that's the distribution I am looking for, both from the
POV of a user or a developer.

Holger
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