Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (48 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 12:20:33 wrote Hugo Costelha:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2007 10:50:44 Michael Loeffler wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the survey we did on proprietary software can be found here:
> > http://en.opensuse.org/UX#Surveys
> >
> > It shows that we ship on the media some software which is hardly used
> > (e.g. PlanMaker, SEPsesam etc.). Software which is hardly used we don't
> > neet to ship on our media. Therfor my suggestion is to drop some software
> > totally and offer some software only via ftp. To be discussed on
> > opensuse-project.
>
> I think that some of the software is not used, because people didn't notice
> it existed. At least for me that is the case. I had never heard of SEPsesam
> until I saw the survey, I will probably try it, now that I know that exists
> and what is it for.

My personal suggestion is to remove it from the media maybe (if it is really 
that large), but keep it in the default ftp tree in any case.

1) We need it anyway to build the distro
2) We have still a large number of academic users, which need it. 
   Yes, these users are only a few compared to the rest, but esp. the students 
   are the people we want to involve with openSUSE development. So we should
   still be an attractive distro to them.

bye
adrian


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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
email: adrian@xxxxxxx

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