Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

[houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:54:19PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Hmm. I somehow suspect this is going to be a bit difficult. With a DVD 
> you always have sufficient amount of space to have both a live version 
> and an install version on the same disc. With a CD, I suspect it will 
> have to be either an installer or a live, but not both on the same 
> medium. The gurus should speak here.

No idea how much the live part would take. Please guru's, would this be
feasable? Perhaps for 10.1? Or later?

> Of course, if it were a barebones inventory of packages, then one CD 
> would suffice, but hey, what value would that have as a demonstration 
> live CD?

You can use it as a try out and if you like it, use it to install without
the need of downloading something else, wich might have a different
version of whatever on it. I have had live evals that did not work where
the official one did. I can imagine that it could be the other way around
as well.

> Marketing department? Does openSUSE have a marketing department? I 
> suspect not! Magazines with an ounce of sense in them should of their 
> own initiative distribute openSUSE, IMHO.

I asume that some of the knowledge of openSUSe will flow back to SUSE.
Then the SUSE marketing could use that to promote SUSE if SUSE were to
have a single CD instalation as well.

> >They even could do a marketresearch
> >on what people want on their PC with priorities. That way they do someting
> >for you. ;-)
> 
> I don't understand. What are you driving at?

I mean two things.
One is that Marketing could investigate what people would want. They have
the knowledge (I hope) on how to do such a research and it will also give
them valuable data to give to other departments on what the user wants and
not just what the geeks and gurus want.
The other thing is a bit tongue in cheeck in that most of the time
Marketing looks mainly at the sales department and then tell production
(the programmers in this case) what to do. If you ask them, they need to
listen to what you want instead of telling you what to do.

And as an afterthought, this is _open_SUSE, so why not have the experience
from people of non-techical knowledge help out where they can?

houghi
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