Am Mittwoch, 28. Juli 2010, 08:50:44 schrieb Will Stephenson:
On Monday 26 July 2010 22:00:55 Pavol Rusnak wrote:
On top of the platform
the openSUSE universe consists of more specific
distributions, which make
use of openSUSE infrastructure and technology.
Examples are SLES, MeeGo,
openSUSE Education, KDE and GNOME live
systems, and could also be for
example developer or cloud oriented
distributions and more.
This sounds a description of the status quo. What other derivatives do you have in mind that would actually represent a growth in overall openSUSE-derived distributions? How would you measure the potential success of this strategy?
The only really popular derivative distributions that I'm aware of are the legally dubious ones that include all the binary drivers, codecs and firmware out of the box. I'm consciously omitting Debian-Ubuntu from this because the enormous amount of work invested to make Debian into Ubuntu makes this unlikely to happen to a reference openSUSE, unless MeeGo bases completely on us. If that's seen as a realistic aim for this proposal, we should be honest about it and rename it 'Hook Up With MeeGo' :).
Will
I think Pavol was thinking more of a 'Spin' way of doing things as Fedora does, but in opensuse one could use the leverage of hazzlefree added obs repos without having it to put right into openSUSE:Factory or making an external repository with hard to maintain consitency to the mainline distribution. As Edu does it right now I think. For example Fedora tries besides the obvious desktop spins are hardware design and emulation platform: http://spins.fedoraproject.org/fel/ For more see http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Problem with Fedora is you need to push these into the official repos afaik, with obs this could be done much more quickly, dump your special package group into it's own repo and use kiwi or suse studio to produce a livecd. But these pieces are mostly already in place imho, there is nothing much to do here beside get people to create these derivates. btw this sounds like a rehash of http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse- project/2010-06/msg00694.html except it sounds more like keeping the current opensuse state as a useful bundle by itself already for regular desktop users. Karsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org