-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lukas Ocilka wrote:

Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:

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However we can still improve by providing a link in YaST Installation Sources to what will come out of this project http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Portal This is going to work like "Get new addons" from Firefox, except it will be for whole repositories instead of single addons.

Actually, the very next alpha of openSUSE 10.3 will have a new feature "Suggested Installation Sources" (Repositories) in which a list of suggested URLs (with name and description) are downloaded from web and they are offered to the user just installing or upgrading the system. Such functionality will be also enabled on a running system.

It would be great if people were able to add more URLs from where to download such repository descriptions. Yes, indeed, I'm thinking of using opensuse-community.org to host such a file for Packman, Guru, etc... repositories that may not be suggested by Novell. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGnUKlr3NMWliFcXcRAumbAJwKMqWQTOyB62MuD7TnL/DC/jVe4wCfcn3p uYeL1843Oerg2wm2gbK6Q4c= =cS7c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lukas Ocilka wrote:

Pascal Bleser wrote:

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Lukas Ocilka wrote:

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However we can still improve by providing a link in YaST Installation Sources to what will come out of this project http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Portal This is going to work like "Get new addons" from Firefox, except it will be for whole repositories instead of single addons. Actually, the very next alpha of openSUSE 10.3 will have a new feature "Suggested Installation Sources" (Repositories) in which a list of suggested URLs (with name and description) are downloaded from web and

Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: they are offered to the user just installing or upgrading the system. Such functionality will be also enabled on a running system. It would be great if people were able to add more URLs from where to download such repository descriptions.

Yes, indeed, I'm thinking of using opensuse-community.org to host such a file for Packman, Guru, etc... repositories that may not be suggested by Novell.

The current solution involves two-level-linking:

1.) List of servers (URLs) where to find lists of repositories 2.) Lists of repositories

The first-level is maintained by Novell, the other by either Novell or the community, of course. Otherwise it wouldn't make much sense to have two levels...

OK, perfect. We should discuss this before releasing 10.3 then (or rather for the betas, to test it before 10.3 is released), in order to have a list of community repositories somewhere on opensuse-community.org and add it to the Novell-maintained list. Except if the legal dept thinks it's a bad idea. Has there been any thoughts about this already ? OK'd by legal ? As coolo is the new project manager, I'm adding him to CC: ;) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGoIX1r3NMWliFcXcRAlojAKC/tURxH37lTvzDCoU95neKPfjO5gCeJkIZ wDJ6l5rSXpv9gtAS0eQhCY8= =Rhys -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 02 July 2007 14:58, Martin Schmidkunz wrote:

Am 02.07.2007, 13:13 Uhr, schrieb Silviu Marin-Caea

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It would be extremely interesting if we could gather such data from users of other distros that are trying our openSUSE for the first time...

.. do you mean other linux distros? Our test users were windows/mac users. Eva

We conducted a study with Windows users who tried openSUSE and Ubuntu for the first time. I hope that some results will be available within the next two weeks.

Thanks for your feedback on your own installation experience!

Enjoy,

Martin

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