On 9/22/07, Clayton
This isn't 100% about openSUSE... but thoguht it was interesting enough to share with the group here. I just spent a very busy and interesting weel in Barcelona at OOoCon 2007. Novell/SUSE was quite visible... and the only Linux vendor in sight. Maybe that is due to the massive amount of work that Novell contributes to the OOo project. There were loads on openSUSE10.2 DVDs floating around, and I know of a few people who are now very interested in openSUSE as a result of tinkering with the DVD that was handed out.
Something I observed... A few of the presenters (outside of the Novell guys) were running some variation of SUSE. All the SUSE guys had (generally) no problems at all when they connected their laptops to the projectors. It just worked. The guys who were running Ubuntu had resolution issues... switching to the projector was... very problematic for them. It was nice to see SUSE just working.. and a few people noticed and started asking a lot of questions (to me anyway)
Hubert Fuguiere's presentation on OfficeOpenXML and Novell's work on it with OOo was quite interesting as was Noel Power's presentation on VBA and OOo. The video of the presentations aren't all up just yet, but once the KiberPiper guys get home and process the hours of video they made it will be here: http://ooocon-kiberpipa.kiberpipa.org/media/index-2007.html
Probably the most fascinating (and also the hardest to understand) was the stuff from Red Office 2000 (the Chinese presenters). If you get a chance, take a look at what they did to make the Chinese version of OOo. They totally reworked the UI, and the first question that was asked was... "Is there an English version?" I wonder of some of the concepts they came up with could be applied to Linux in general?
Anyway... it was an amazing conference... and it was nice to see openSUSE so visible.
Great to hear! Thanks for sharing :-) Kind thoughts, -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org