Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (349 mails)

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On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 14:03, jdd wrote:
> > And therein lies a question... why?  Why is Ubuntu gaining so much at
> > the expense of others like openSUSE?
>
> may be because the cd was available at no cost by post office !
>
> but this is no longer, so will see is ubuntu still have so any success
>
> jdd
> NB: and it's a cd, not a dvd

Mmmm I don't believe for a second that a mailed CD is the reason
Ubuntu is popular.  In days gone by maybe that was an issue but now?
Even when I've been in Kenya and Rwanda where internet isn't the
fastest or most reliable, people there are downloading not
mail-ordering Ubuntu if they are wanting Linux, not the openSUSE
LiveCDs (which are roughly the same size to download).  No one wants
to wait around for the slow postal system to deliver them a CD... it's
the "do it now or I lose interest" mentality :-P  openSUSE provides
essentially the same LiveCD concept as Ubuntu as well.. so it's not
that we're missing a LiveCD with whichever DE you prefer.. they are
there and really easy to get.

C.
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