Sorry for the delay here goes my responces.. On Thursday 21 Apr 2011 19:47:04 Manu Gupta wrote:
Hi Peeps,
We have a small questionnaire for you guys, please answer them. Along with this, if you can write a small quote / paragraph we will try to quote you at news.opensuse.org if the news team likes yours. The questionnaire is below
1. Do you know about YaST?
2. Do you know about Tumbleweed and Evergreen? Yes Tumbleweed is the rolling release - I haven't yet ventured into it I
Yet Another Setup Tool - (never heard of it j/k) yes of course I have heard of yast and use it regularly. I use it for server and hardware configurations mainly I prefer zypper for software management its just quicker to type a one line command for example to add repos. prefer the stability of 11.4 with the options of additional components such as kde 4.62 - I only upgrade that what is considered to be important for bug fixes. Evergreen is prolonging the life of discontinued versions of openSUSE although I don't know quite why it is required.
3. Do you know about connect? No 4. Did you know zypper just got faster in 11.4? I just thought it was because it downloads everything first and then installs everything.
5. Do you know about patterns while installing openSUSE? I have a vague idea about it, I guess this is how it always knows exactly which software to install. When we select KDE Desktop, there is a list of associated software with the correct graphical version ie GTK or QT.
6. Do you know that default preferred OS for GNOME3 thorughout the testing and release phase was openSUSE?
I only found that out 1 week before the Launch Party for Gnome 3 as a KDE User I don't pay that much attention to Gnome development personally I don't think I have any hardware that Gnome 3 runs on so I don't see what the big hype is about.
7. Do you know about openFATE? No maybe its a members only thing?
9. Do you know about the multiple desktop selections we have in openSUSE? I created the opensuse-lxde channel on freenode and I also use KDE and IceWM.
10. How many times have you been asked "Is openSUSE Linux"? Usually everymonth when I do my marketing pitch in Sheffield and Leeds.
11. What do you tell people when they ask how different is openSUSE from UBUNTU / other distributions?
Ubuntu is moving away from the Desktop market and focussing on tablet and portable device market since its parting of the ways with Gnome 2.x but to be honest imo Gnome 3 seems to be similar.
12. Did you know YaST works in ncurses, Gtk and Qt interfaces?
If you use Gnome or KDE you get GTK or QT and if you use shell you get ncurses? Webyast I haven't tried.
13. Did you know OBS is used by meego, dell and other industrial vendors when distributing their own linux distributions?
I did not. If dell ships Linux how come all the Dells I see are running Windows?
14. Can you quote something nice about openSUSE, we can possibly use your quote ( after mentioning you offcourse ;-) ) at the news team.
openSUSE to me is the distribution, the operating system, openSUSE is a one stop software solution that incorporates a stable reliable Graphical Operating Environment with the latest in Office Productivity, Accounts, Graphical Design and Multimedia to name but a few. It can be used as a web server as well as the desktop tools to design the content for the server. Best of all if you join the project you can contribute toward the development and help the shape the project in the future.
15. Do you know we have an artwork git repository that keeps you upto date with latest marketing materials like posters, slides etc?
Yes but I have no idea how to actually browse it i tend to just use http://opensuse.org/portal:/opensuse_miscalanious_artwork or whatever it is this week as it keeps getting moved..
16. Do you have any localisation issues?
As british english is my localisation I don't think so it would be nice to have British English as apose to American English as default :D
17. Do you know about the ambassador portal and can you suggest changes to it?
No
18. Do you know about the flickr group openSUSE has?
I uploaded my Desktop there so I guess so
A lot of questions it seems but it will be definitely helpful so that we can provide you with better materials and stuff like that.
Hope that helps :) -- Kind Regards Stuart Tanner Bolton Linux 24 Vincent Street Bolton BL1 4SA Tel: +44(0)1204 410474 Mob: +44(0)7868 028028 www.bolin.org.uk Distributing openSUSE in the UK Registered Linux User: 529825 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org