Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (107 mails)

[ricardo varas s <rvaras81@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Bryen <suserocks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Bryen <suserocks@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] Unique about openSUSE?
> To: opensuse-marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 10:56 AM
> I. On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 06:41 -0700, ricardo varas s wrote:
> > --- On Thu, 10/30/08, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
> <jbrockmeier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > From: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
> <jbrockmeier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] Unique about
> openSUSE?
> > > To: "Adi Nugroho"
> <adi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: opensuse-marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 10:21 AM
> > > On 10/30/2008 05:33 AM, Adi Nugroho wrote:
> > > > (4) The stability. Yes, excluding openSUSE
> 11.0,
> > > opensuse is a stable distro.
> > > > Hopefully, openSUSE 11.1 is stable again
> like ussual.
> > > I hear stability a lot -- Is there anything
> specifically
> > > about openSUSE 
> > > that is more stable than others?
> > >
> > > Not looking to knock other distros or anything --
> just want
> > > to quantify 
> > > "stability" a little further.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Zonker
> > Stability shows through well tested software we have
> in openSUSE. For example, ubuntu lives with software that is
> mostly unstable, and there you have a lot of problemas like
> applications freezing. And Mandriva used to hang just too
> much to me so after a week never used it again.
> > Greetings.
> > -Ricardo Varas.
>
> While I think Ricardo makes some great examples, are we
> able to quantify that with any statistics that show users
> have fewer problems on openSUSE than others?
>
> I think just using those examples without any real
> quantification runs
> the risk of Joe having to respond to audience members
> saying "Hey, just
> because that guy didn't install very well, or had bad
> hardware, don't
> paint us as a crappy distro."
>
> I'm sure the others do some testing.  The focus should
> be then, why our
> testing methodologies are better than theirs, thus leading
> to such
> stability.  Or is it because our upstream contributions
> usually give
> birth first by testing on an openSUSE box?
>       
> -- 
> Bryen Yunashko
> openSUSE Board Member

Hi Bryen!
I don't know today what testing methodologies have other distros, but I tend to 
believe that openSUSE release cycle allows a better stability level, besides 
being a Novell business is a plus too.
About ubuntu (or eventually other distro), I don't think its crappy, but for me 
openSUSE works better in every way.
Now, as users if any bug appears, we should report it with as much information 
as we can so next releases are even better. We all can help make openSUSE the 
best distro out there.

-Ricardo Varas.


      
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