Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (245 mails)

[Bruno Friedmann <bruno@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/26/2010 08:59 AM, Martin Schlander wrote:
> Torsdag den 25. marts 2010 23:33:07 skrev Andrew Wafaa:
> > On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 09:03 +0100, Martin Schlander wrote:
> > > The main thing we're missing is a clear goal and direction. Wanting to be
> > > "the best community distro available" is too vague and can mean a ton of
> > > different things to different people. As a comparison I think Ubuntu and
> > > Fedora have goals and identities that are operational and that it's
> > > pretty clear to most people what they are and what they want to do.
> >
> > So what you're saying is we need both long-term *and* short term goals
> > that are realistic and achievable?  That makes perfect sense, and I
> > whole heartily agree.  As long as we don't fix the direction or targets
> > too much in stone then it shouldn't be a problem to achieve; I think one
> > thing we as a community need to do better is be more agile.  Any chance
> > of examples from Ubuntu & Fedora just so that I (and maybe others) can
> > see what you mean, please?
>
> I mean we need one main, long term goal and purpose, that can be summed up in 
> a single sentence - which is operational enough to guide technical priorities 
> and decision making, as well as focus marketing.
>
> Ubuntu have their bug #1 - breaking MS dominance. Wanting to be the "Linux 
> for 
> hobbits".
>
> Fedora is all about bleeding edge and free software.
>
> What is openSUSE about? Some say it's bleeding edge for geeks and testbed for 
> SLE... some say it's quite stable and user friendly... some say it's for 
> experts... some say it's professional and polished. But it can't be all those 
> things at the same time, and the result is we have people pulling in 
> different 
> directions cuz there's no real agreement on what openSUSE should and 
> shouldn't 
> be.
>
> Personally I'd like to see openSUSE as "the professional and productive 
> GNU/Linux for home users" - I think we're in a good position to do that, but 
> there are definitely forces pulling in different directions.
>
>  

I would prefer professionnal and productive GNU/Linux for professionnal (People 
making money with their computer)
This type of people would paid support and have a big interest in a lean tool.
We have loose some of these people with some lazy release of geecko. We must 
made a stop to that.

Home users are very volatile in terms of market.

my 2 cents

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     Bruno Friedmann

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