Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (441 mails)

[James Tremblay aka SLEducator <fxrsliberty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Springer wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 5:45 AM, James Tremblay aka SLEducator
> <fxrsliberty@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > I believe that  openSUSE would have been just as good a fit on a netbook
> > as this:
> > http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=1221&tag=nl.e539
> > I think the reason things like this keep going Ubuntu is not that Ubuntu
> > is better but that LTS
> > makes Ubuntu more usable and more re-installable because its less update
> > intensive.
> > openSUSE 10.3 , A very likable and usable version takes almost 2 gb of
> > updates to get to it's best.
> > if all these updates had been rolled into a 10.3 LTS ISO it could have
> > taken HP's breath away!
> > It's our duty to find a way to keep the libre\free version of SUSE as
> > close to enterprise as possible without stealing it's thunder.
> > We have to find a blend of reliability and pioneering edge. SLED moves
> > to slow for personal usage yet, IMHO , openSUSE seems to move to fast.
> >
> >     
>
> There's probably a lot of performance / bloated  perception problems
> too, especially for such an underpowered machine. Out of the box,
> openSUSE crawls on my netbook (Acer Aspire One) while Ubuntu is quite
> nippy. Of course, with a few file system tweaks, a new kernel,
> removing beagle and a couple other services -- openSUSE is every bit
> as fast. Yet it leaves people with the impression "openSUSE is slow,
> Ubuntu is fast."
>
>   
What is even worse , according to this http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7255
the only netbook to carry any version of SuSE
is now not doing so, that is 7 out of 7 running something other than
SuSE. No netbooks for my family this year ;)
This is an important detail to me as these are largely going into
children's hands and umm, I started the openSUSE EDU
project. Please lets help HP and Lenovo come home!

-- 
James Tremblay
openSIS Product Specialist
http://www.os4ed.com
mail james "AT" os4ed.com
CNE 3,4,5
MCSE w2k
CLE in training
Registered Linux user #440182
http://en.opensuse.org/education


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