Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 2010-06-09 22:42, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
> 2010/6/9 Trifle Menot <>:

> > Novell gave opensuse a bad reputation.  A new corporate name may help
> > change market perceptions.  It seems likely that will happen soon.
>
> Clearly we have different point of views. I think Novell made openSUSE
> possible, more open and accessible. Look at the facts for one minute
> instead than to the politics. Novell opened the whole SUSE, made YaST
> open source (it wasn't in SuSE), they offered the openSUSE
> buildservice to the community, opening it to all major distributions.
> They support, sometime alone, many open projects, and openSUSE has one
> of the best KDE and GNOME implementations of the Linux arena.

That's true.

> The bad reputation is not that bad. It is often due to what people
> reads on certain press, but when they know the community and try the
> distribution, they often change their mind, even in comparison to
> other more popular distributions  (read ubuntu). I see that happen
> quite often.

On the other hand, I have seen old time users, even contributors, go away to 
some other distro just
because the support time went down from two years to 18 months.

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Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Minas Tirith))
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