Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2319 mails)

["Amedee Van Gasse (amedee.be)" <amedee@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, March 13, 2009 09:42, G T Smith wrote:

> One of the reasons OS/2 lost to Windows 3.x is that it was very
> unfriendly to much legacy DOS stuff and there was little available to
> replace these on OS/2 originally... (and an OS without usable apps is a
> useful as a chocolate teapot, no.. correction... you can eat a chocolate
> teapot so the latter is more useful :-) )... At the institution I was
> based in about 90 days of receiving a bundle of OS/2 based PS/2s at least
> three quarters ended up running DOS/Windows 3.0..
>
> When the problems were eventually sorted it was very useful, but by then
> the intended audience had left the auditorium. Something which maybe those
> in charge of openSuSE releases need to bear in mind....

You write that as if OpenSuse is the only Linux distribution.
Wake up and smell the coffee, it's not!
It is only second or third to Ubuntu.

I don't want to say that it's better or worse, but if things go the wrong
way with OpenSuse, the intended audience is more likely to switch to
Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora than to Windows.

-- 
Amedee

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