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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Unique about openSUSE?
- From: Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:58:31 +0100
- Message-id: <200810301258.31509.martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>
Onsdag 29 oktober 2008 22:08:23 skrev Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier:
Here's my list of points where I find openSUSE shines:
* KDE - Best KDE "service" anywhere, hands down.
* YaST - more graphical (and ncurses) system configuration tools than any
other distro. Very powerful, while also easy to use.
* Build service repositories. The OBS (and also Packman) makes it easy to have
up to date applications, while maintaining a stable base system. I don't think
any other distro has nearly as many "backports" available.
* x86_64 - Very good implementation, "dual arch" support makes other distros -
especially Debian-based ones - look amateurish in this space - especially for
desktops.
* 1-click-install - I don't think it should be used as a replacement for
traditional package management, but for quick install of codecs and such it's
excellent.
* 24 month support - Competing distros are generally only supported for 12-18
months.
* Innovation and upstream contribution - Novell/SUSE has a lot of muscle, and
it doesn't just package what others create, there's real innovation and
upstream involvement.
* Free software friendlyness - This is generally not a quality associated with
Novell/SUSE - but with the no-blobs-in-kernel-policy, clearly separated free
and non-free repos, and live-cd media which have only firmware in the non-free
department.
* (Home) Server qualities - I generally find that openSUSE is vastly
underrated as a (home) server. A lot of people don't realize the dvd
installer offers a text mode/server installation, that openSUSE is SLES base,
yast works in ncurses, that there are a million yast modules besides the ones
installed by default, apparmor and xen integration and yast modules.. and
probably other great server features I don't have a clue about.
Some of the less tangible qualities I find:
* Good balance between up-to-date and stable
* Integrated and polished look and feel
* "Professional" (SLE base)
* "German engineering"
* History and tradition (and experience)
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One of the questions I am asked frequently: What makes openSUSE unique
among Linux distros?
Here's my list of points where I find openSUSE shines:
* KDE - Best KDE "service" anywhere, hands down.
* YaST - more graphical (and ncurses) system configuration tools than any
other distro. Very powerful, while also easy to use.
* Build service repositories. The OBS (and also Packman) makes it easy to have
up to date applications, while maintaining a stable base system. I don't think
any other distro has nearly as many "backports" available.
* x86_64 - Very good implementation, "dual arch" support makes other distros -
especially Debian-based ones - look amateurish in this space - especially for
desktops.
* 1-click-install - I don't think it should be used as a replacement for
traditional package management, but for quick install of codecs and such it's
excellent.
* 24 month support - Competing distros are generally only supported for 12-18
months.
* Innovation and upstream contribution - Novell/SUSE has a lot of muscle, and
it doesn't just package what others create, there's real innovation and
upstream involvement.
* Free software friendlyness - This is generally not a quality associated with
Novell/SUSE - but with the no-blobs-in-kernel-policy, clearly separated free
and non-free repos, and live-cd media which have only firmware in the non-free
department.
* (Home) Server qualities - I generally find that openSUSE is vastly
underrated as a (home) server. A lot of people don't realize the dvd
installer offers a text mode/server installation, that openSUSE is SLES base,
yast works in ncurses, that there are a million yast modules besides the ones
installed by default, apparmor and xen integration and yast modules.. and
probably other great server features I don't have a clue about.
Some of the less tangible qualities I find:
* Good balance between up-to-date and stable
* Integrated and polished look and feel
* "Professional" (SLE base)
* "German engineering"
* History and tradition (and experience)
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