Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (107 mails)

[Michael Loeffler <michl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

- YaST
- support of the major desktops
- simply + clean installation - works out of the box
- growing number of software/repos available
- 1-click install
- right balance between cutting edge and stability
- competitive update meanwhile ;-)
- huge open source developer work force employed by Novell (incl. some 
key people

M

On Thursday 30 October 2008, Tehmasp Chaudhri wrote:
> For me, it's the excellent integration w/ some great Mono apps -
> simply because ex-Ximian developers work for Novell.  Banshee,
> Tomboy, F-Spot, etc.. are a must for me.
>
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 17:08 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > One of the questions I am asked frequently: What makes openSUSE
> > unique among Linux distros?
> >
> > I think it'd be good to have a list of benefits / advantages to
> > openSUSE. Note, not looking to say we're "better" than other
> > distros, even if we are ;-) just how are we actually *different*
> > since we ship about 98% the same software?
> >
> > Obviously, I've given this some thought, but I suspect that more
> > heads are better than just mine on this one. As we're approaching
> > the 11.1 release, I know that this question will come up again
> > quite a bit.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Zonker
> > --
> > Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
> > openSUSE Community Manager
> > jzb@xxxxxxxxxx
> > http://zonker.opensuse.org/
> > http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/



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