lynn wrote:
On 12/21/2011 12:25 AM, Brian K. White wrote:
On 12/19/2011 8:05 PM, Rüdiger Meier wrote:
On Tuesday 20 December 2011, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
On 19/12/11 17:15, Brian K. White wrote:
We do not WANT that much uniformity among distros.
The lack of uniformity, is a mayor problem, at least from my developer point of view, it duplicates a lot of work.
Why do we need openSUSE at all? Because it's green?
Uniformity is nice where it does not have too much downsides. I'am totally fine that there are distros like Ubuntu or Fedora rapidly throwing away good old unix style to get over some apple/windows users. But isn't Fedora/Ubuntu enough? Do we need a greenish mix of them?
What exactly should be the difference between Fedora and openSUSE?
That right there is the $64,000 question. The consultancy down the road are hiring. It's a deal more than you're earning now, less work and a company car. You're OK with Yast and openSUSE. They use Debian.
Job vacancies are beginning to specify not Linux, but a distro.
Well, but that's easy. In that situation, one always knows Debian, of course. Anybody who knows her or his way around openSUSE and isn't proficient in Debian within a week (that one needs to be proficient in any new company anyhow) is not worth hiring. All the others can tell their future employers that they know Debian, because, at the time the specific knowledge is needed, they will. And that's my NSHO as a CEO who does hiring. My company exists since 1995, and I was always able to distinguish between blenders that tell me about dists they boasted to be in-and-out and (to take a recent example) Ex-Solaris admins with 20+ years experience who were grumpy but knew Linux best practices within a forthnight. No need to tell who I hired. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org