Hi Richard, Am 28.03.2017 um 19:07 schrieb Richard Brown:
I would like to take this point in the thread to conduct a theoretical, thought experiment.
I want to make something absolutely clear, I'm asking the below as 'Richard the contributor', not 'Richard the SUSE employee', and what I am about to suggest should not be taken as an indication that SUSE are even considering the below.
Would the users and contributors on this list be interested in a 100% matching SLE-like LTS distribution?
I would.
The main difference from Leap would be
- absolutely no divergence from SLE, period
- no additional community packages in the distribution (ie. pretty much 1 tool for 1 task. One DE, One web server)
- Release schedule that lags SLE (would only be able to release *AFTER* SLE, whereas Leap we can develop it WITH SLE because we're working together)
There would be no guarantee of a release-lifecycle any different from Leap, because such an idea could rely entirely on the sources made available to openSUSE via SUSE's contributions to Leap.
If the answer to the above is Yes the follow up questions are
Would you like this in addition to Leap, or instead of?
In addition to, reason below.
What use cases would you use it for which Leap couldn't do?
Only for my server(s, but really only one at home), with additional repos providing stuff like VDR or tvheadend.
Would this mean reducing the scope of Leap?
No, Leap would still be the distro of choice for Desktops, because there is no usable (for me) desktop on SLES.
Would you be willing to contribute to/release manage/help maintain/support such a distribution?
contribute to / help maintain / support: yes release manage: no (but I also would not do that for Leap or TW) In the end, Leap works good enough as-is on my server, and if I want to tinker with old stuff, I have SLES10/11/12 at work, and since I am the only one until now to give a positive reaction, I don't assume this will become a real option :-) -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org