Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (224 mails)

[Manu Gupta <manugupt1@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 16:35:55 Manu Gupta wrote:
> > Can we have a news item for this? Encouraging derivatives is a good
> > idea in my opinion also ask the author his permission to do this
>
> Should we have news item just for this - or what about one mentioning a couple
> of examples that have been done? So more a story openSUSE is good for
> derivatives, here're some great ones?
Well I would like a couple of more, but certainly we will have to dig
for them but different news items.

Why I have said this there are a very few distributions which are
actually enlightment based and I think atleast the local community
here looks forward to enlightment.. Plus there are a few people who
are actually looking forward for this


> > The only problem is it is not named openSUSE  but I think that can be
> > ignored
>
> MIght be a result of the current branding guidelines,
>
> Andreas
>
> > Regards
> > Manu
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Ricardo Chung <amon0.thoth1@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: [opensuse-project] Can we get on this
> > To: opensuse-project@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 7:36:32 AM Kostas Koudaras wrote:
> > > 2011/5/6 Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > > Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 18:26 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> > > > http://www.geek.com/articles/games/game-developer-david-braben-creates-
> > > > a- usb-stick-pc-for-25-2011055/
> > > >
> > > > > > 128Mb RAM is too little I suspect. I don't think YaST will run in
> > > > > > less than 196M.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Anyway, decent secondhand PCs with comparable performance are
> > > > > > available on ebay for about USD25, maybe a little more. :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > As it ships pre-installed I doubt we need a full fledged yast around
> > > > > this to get an installer running. It's rather 'fixed' hardware, so a
> > > > > simple dd before shipping the sticks might very well be worth it.
> > > >
> > > > Good point.  The question (perhaps) is, how do those ARMs perform?  I
> > > > have some 5-6 year old laptops with 1.5GHz Celerons and 512Mb RAM -
> > > > with 10.x, they were still a very capable work platform, but with 11.4,
> > > > they're much too slow.
> > >
> > > What about if we install 11.1 or 11.4 with Enlightement?
> > > we could try and experiment on it, I have some people that would like
> > > to try it and see if it's possible, I will send an e-mail to see if I
> > > can buy one or two so that we can experiment on that.
> >
> > Maybe you could try with http://sites.google.com/site/petitelinux/download
> > wich is based on openSUSE 11.4 with Enlightenment.
> >
> > Petite Linux is an openSUSE build, created using susestudio.com, featuring
> > the Enlightenment (e17) Desktop Environment
> >
> > Features:
> >    Fits on a (live) cd, just insert the cd, reboot, try it out
> >    No need for choices, it works as-is
> >    No clutter, just functionality
> >
> > > If something like that is possible we could organize a hackfest inside
> > > the oSC, what do you think about that?
> > >
> > > > /Per
> > > >
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