Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (441 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 03:01:29 pm Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
> > 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!
>
> How do you think openSUSE can make it on netbooks if Novell is pushing
> SLE there, clearly not understanding that the target user is different,
> and, as a consequence, people is not interested in an enterprise
> desktop, but wants something more flexible?

Just to add: newer OS, multimedia capable, cheaper than enterprize version. 
No need for support contracts, just online updates and forums will suffice. 

> Another consideration is that to push openSUSE on netbooks, Novell would
> have to grant level of qualities of two distributions, SLE and openSUSE,
> while currently they have formally no obligation with respect to
> openSUSE.
>
> In other words, I don't see any chance for openSUSE on netbooks if
> Novell doesn't wake up from the "Enterprise only" dream, and starts
> concentrating also on _actually_ making openSUSE what its slogan say:
> "The most usable Linux for home users". In this respect, I am very
> interested on the focus discussion, which should start sooner or later,
> about openSUSE goals.

Big companies have inertia that is not easy to overcome, and also it is not 
possible to fix openSUSE reputation overnight. 

Apropos goals:
It is also hard to achieve anything sticking to model that works good for long 
time Linux users that don't mind fixing things. 

World is changing, average linux (computer) user skills are now all, but 
computer related. From few comments here and my humble experience main 
Ubuntu's strength is understanding that mainstream computer users don't care 
how computer works. They don't want to fix it, they want to use it. 

This is nothing specific to Linux, or even computers. First cars were driven 
by people that knew how to fix them, now average driver has no idea how motor 
works, even replacing tire is a kind of skill. First TV users were able to 
open the box and replace tube, now average has no idea what to do with all 
buttons on remote. BTW, remote control is example of design that is good for 
demanding users and those that need only power, channel and volume control. 

-- 
Regards, Rajko
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