Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Alberto Passalacqua <albert.passalacqua@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/6/17 Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hello,

> I have to agree with Coolo. Frankly I'm a little confused and disappointed by
> the three proposed strategies.

I agree with Coolo and Martin on this. It doesn't seem to me the
proposals actually reflect what openSUSE is and they seem to me too
narrow.

> What needed to be done was to decide how to diversify ourselves from other
> general purpose operating systems and define a target audience. But
> "developers", "derivate makers" or "cloud lovers" are all extremely narrow,
> niche target audiences. I can't support either one of those in their current
> form.

Yes, exactly.

> This "position" is available because Ubuntu targets the übern00bs and Fedora
> targets the geeks - no gratis/community distro really targets people that want
> to be productive and get things done, without things being either too
> experimental or too dumbed down.

I cannot support a strategy that says "openSUSE - The KDE
distribution", simply because I find it (again) disrespectful of what
the other side (GNOME) did and is doing. It is time to move on, and
targeting KDE means imho targeting desktop users, many of which use
GNOME, of which we already have a very good implementation. Maybe we
should leverage it more.

In general however, I find this proposal more interesting than "cloud
ready" or "for developers". A developer has no problem to download a
tool he needs, if the base distro is good, and investing in the cloud
imho is still an open question.

Best,
A.
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