On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jos Poortvliet
On Saturday 09 June 2012 11:27:08 Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Sat, 2012-06-09 at 00:20 -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Patrick Shanahan
wrote: * M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
[06-08-12 17:15]: ... If I were designing the next round of openSUSE, I'd make only the KDE LiveCD and full install DVD as official branded media and migrate everything else to SUSE Studio Gallery appliances one could clone, build and download. I wouldn't even store built appliances - let the user use his/her own disk space allocation for that.
and the *only* new users to openSUSE will be geeks familiar with kiwi and very competent in linux arts.
Downloading a built appliance from SUSE Studio is only a little more difficult than getting install media from http://software.opensuse.org/121/en. The only extra step is having to do a one-time signup and "join the community".
true, but it would be easier, if all of those iso's and images were available for all, and not just for those with an account.
You don't need an account on Studio/Gallery to download.
Are you sure? When I'm not logged in, it asks me to sign in to download my appliances. You can create an account with a few clicks via OpenID, Google, Twitter, etc., but I think you still need one to download.
In any case, IF we do this - Studio/Gallery would need some changes to make for a better landing page for openSUSE visitors. I would want it to be openSUSE branded and all that.
I believe that something like that could be arranged. After all, it'd be nice for Studio promo too ;-)
Yeah ... SUSE Studio is "SUSE Corporate", not openSUSE. As I recall, the core technologies are open source but the studio as a whole contains some proprietary components. SUSE sells a supported version of the studio to enterprises, in fact. Maybe there needs to be a separate "openSUSE Studio Gallery" - remove the SLE repositories, change the branding, don't require logins and work with corporate to open source the technology. -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb Computational Journalism Server http://j.mp/compjournoserver Data is the new coal - abundant, dirty and difficult to mine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org