Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (66 mails)

[Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tirsdag 23 januar 2007 09:29 skrev Silviu Marin-Caea:
> Yeah it would be so fabulous if openSUSE would
> be stable and polished, have super new software and nice glitz, but it's
> damned *HARD* to achieve, technically and financially.

I don't think anyone is expecting SLED-like stability, just a little better, 
so that we could actually recommend and install openSUSE with our mothers and 
other n00bs and they won't have to suffer all those little annoyances that 
though small, makes it impossible for Joe Sixpack to use it.

However maybe the bugs don't come from using bleeding edge software, but from 
lack of testing. It'd prolly be easier for the devs to see what "kinds" of 
bugs we have and what it would take to solve the quality problems we have.

> so why do you have such a problem with SLED?

I haven't used SLED, but as I understand it's not really geared towards home 
users, wrt. package availability etc., and if I'm not mistaken for example 
kdewebdev3 is not in it (!!). That means users have to mess with 10.1 repos, 
and be very careful which packages to install and update and such, not 
exactly an easy polished experience for Joe Sixpack.

But I'm hoping Novell, or others, will soon target the home user market in a 
serious way, I really hope there'll be a "SUSE Linux Home Desktop 11". 

I personally love my openSUSE, but I don't think it can be considered a viable 
solution for non-geek home users currently, and I think it should be. For the 
sake of Linux, Novell and the world in general.

However I don't think we're so far off, like I stated earlier, I really think 
just 2-3 weeks of additional testing and a little bit of conservatism could 
work wonders.

Martin
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