Josef Assad wrote:
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Andreas Jaeger wrote:
I suggest to install at least one of these products on real hardware and evaluate the distribution and try to get ideas for our next product.
Does it make sense to make an effort to survey people who have gone from openSUSE to another distro or OS (and that includes distro tourists, those fun folk who indiscriminately jump on new releases)? I don't know how much response the YaST survey got, but it might be a way to:
- - Get feedback from people who made a conscious decision to go with something other than openSUSE - - Visibly reach out to the open source community at large
I'd be happy to draft such a survey myself. Of course, it would subsequently require more than one man for spreading the word.
Thoughts?
Very good idea, articles on the likes of slashdot and linuxtoday. I have several of the distros quoted, but running in Virtualbox or KVM, but openSUSE is in regular use on 4 boxes. Despite the press it gets, openSUSE for me is the best for content as there is precious little else I need to alter or install compared to many, Mandriva being one exception. PCLinuxOS, Freespire (That Ubuntu root thingie again), Fedora 8 Beta, all decent enough and liveable with. Apart from the tools, Mandriva has also ran here faultlessly, but openSUSE is the preferred distro I install on other people's PC's, even for total newbies. I've also installed PCLinuxOS for someone who had a laptop with a P-III and lowish memory. Where Kubuntu (with KDE running) scored for me was on a P-III/333 MHZ laptop with 96M memory and 2M video, it was very responsive, whereas openSUSE was almost unuseable unless something like WindowMaker or FVWM2 was used instead of KDE. Things I didn't like about Kubuntu:- * That strange "root" thing, I couldn't see the logic. * Package management which gets so hyped up, you'd think it was nirvana. I couldn't get it to install skype, that was after a newbie asked me how to do it, I tried and failed just as he did. Certain things landed in dependency hell. Give me YaST or URPMI any day. openSUSE is a big and pretty all encompassing project and most reviewers seem to want something small, perhaps the 1 CD approach with carefully selected packages could go up against the likes of Kubuntu, emphasising the choice to reviewers and potential users - a sort of if you want it there is an openSUSE distro that covers it, you want small, get openSUSE, you want gigantic, get openSUSE. The one big question is why KDE on openSUSE is so treacle slow on a low spec box when compared to Kubuntu. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org