Re: [opensuse-factory] Being better (was: When was it decided /usr ... )

On Sunday, November 18, 2012 21:57:52 Hans Witvliet wrote:

On Sun, 2012-11-18 at 12:44 -0600, Rajko wrote:

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On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:35:37 -0800

Linda Walsh wrote:

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... referring in a backhanded way to the downward slide of quality and stability...

Not really.

It is the fact that openSUSE is upstream for SUSE enterprise products, but also, that majority of code contributors are SUSE employees, which, in effect, makes openSUSE playground for new technologies in the exactly the same way as Fedora.

Actually this puzzles me a bit.

I work for a rather large organisation and have considerable number of SLES machines (SAP, oracle, ...)

At last product presentation one of the product managers came from Nurnburg, at was specifically asked what plans there were considering initrd/systemd.

We were told clearly and with no reservations that there were __NO__ plans whatsoever to introduce systemd into sles.

I don't know when this was said and by whom - but it's not the current state. As was said at SUSECon this year in Orlando, we do plan to introduce systemd into SLES 12. If you have concerns with that, then let's talk off line since SLES is not on topic here.

So this can mean a couple of things: 1) SLES and opensuse are drifting apart. (as in: initrd only maintained for sles) 2) "Plans has changed" in the mean time and if SLES12 is going to use systemd, SuSE is going to loose customers. Considering the growing market share of "the competitors", is this not a path they are likely to take... 3) Is there a third option?

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