On 7/8/19 2:14 PM, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
In any case those experiences together with reports from others just paints a picture in my mind where I see some misalignment. I'm not saying we are there yet but the direction is to something like: Leap = SLE + community stuff What I think that Leap should be: Leap = SLE (with community modifications where the community/maintainer wants it; in best case w/o breaking base compatibility with SLE) + community stuff
Now the truth is probably somewhere inbetween and that is what I meant with "dictates a bit too much".
Well, SLE dictates - and enterprise Linux in general - the direction because that's where the vast majority of users are. I know that most people do not like to hear this, but Linux has nearly no relevance on the desktop so it's just natural that the server variants determine the direction as they are also the ones who are funding most of the development (be it Red Hat, SUSE, Intel, Google, IBM etc). If you want that developers are being paid to work on Linux and open projects in general, you have to accept the fact that most customers who are paying these developers are enterprise customers in the end. Adrian