Ken Schneider
Stefan Hundhammer pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 13:57, Carlos F. Lange wrote:
What about cover mounts for magazines? Wouldn't that have the same effect of visibility? I would say no. Linux magazines have a very low visibility. I have to look hard for them behind the rows and rows of Win and Mac magazines (and I always pull some of them to the front :). But the common user only buys magazines _after_ he/she starts using a system and, even then, such a user may feel overwhelmed by all the overload of Linux programs the magazines tend to offer.
It's not just Linux magazines. Here in Germany, c't magazine repeatedly had openSUSE DVDs on the cover (and of course a number of articles about it inside, too). This is one of the largest and also most well-respected computer magazines there is on the German market. This for sure does have large visibility in the entire IT market, not just the Linux niche.
Agreed, we do have more installation from just the c't magazine cover mount than worldwide box sales for openSUSE 10.3.
For other countries, I have no clue if and how we ever distributed DVDs that way.
CU
If you distribute it through magazines why not put it in the windows magazines? A live DVD that has the option to be installed?
Something we should look at ;-) Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126