Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (107 mails)

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jbrockmeier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/30/2008 07:58 AM, Martin Schlander wrote:
> * x86_64 - Very good implementation, "dual arch" support makes other distros -
> especially Debian-based ones - look amateurish in this space - especially for
> desktops.

How does our x86_64 differ, exactly?

> * 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.

Oh, yeah -- this is an awesome feature.

> * 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.

Good point. I stress this when I talk about openSUSE, but more examples 
are always welcome.

> * (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.

Agreed - we talk about the desktop a lot because it's something you can 
*see* -- we need to emphasize the server features in 11.1 as well. Any 
suggestions welcome.

Best,

Zonker
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Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
openSUSE Community Manager
http://zonker.opensuse.org/
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