Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (107 mails)

["¡ElCheVive!" <elchevive68@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/10/29 Gabriel Fróes Franco <gffranco@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hey Zonker,
>
> Speaking from my own experience what made me move from Red Hat to SuSE (back
> into 9.x ) was:
>
> 1) YAST: This is a great tool for someone who wants to keep control of the
> machine without wanting to touch zillions of configuration files. By the time
> I wasn't used to the configuration schema of linux and YAST helped me a lot
> configuring an authentication server, a firewall, a router and also setting
> up all the developemnt workstations on the company I used to work.
>
> 2) Even with the YAST to help you, the organization of the configuration files
> was easier for me to understand and use. Also the files had tons of comments
> to help me go through them and understand the parameters.
>
> 3) Default instalation wasn't full of unuseful sofwares. It just contained the
> basics and adding new sofware was easy.
>
> 4) Forums: I found all the help I needed in openSuSE community. Everyone tried
> hard to help new comers on forums (old forums.suselinuxsupport.de) and IRC
> channels. It felt like home into SuSE community.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Gabriel

My 2 cents:

* Offering the 2 (3?) most used desktop (GNOME, KDE3 and KDE4) and
giving the user the option to choose in the install time
* Many GNOME, KDE, kernel developers working on Novell
* In the KDE4 side, giving the best "implementation" of the new KDE

Regards,

Luiz
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