On 2018-02-20 11:54, Liam Proven wrote:
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:05:01 +0100 Richard Brown <RBrownCCB@opensuse.org> wrote:
Your choice of terminology is confusing. openSUSE can't 'outsource' anything to it's community, openSUSE IS it's community. We're talking about what will the openSUSE community do in the openSUSE communities distributions. We don't have anyone else to give this problem to.
Um. I do not understand you, but I feel that you are lecturing me in a very pedantic way, rather than trying to teach me something here.
I am quite new here. I have been a SUSE user for about 20 years, but not much since 2004 when I switched to Ubuntu -- mostly because SUSE Linux was so big, and included so much stuff I didn't need, whereas Ubuntu was small and lean and focussed and took about a quarter as much disk space.
I missed YAST at first, and especially SAX, but everything else just worked and I copied xorg.conf from my SUSE install.
Now I am back and I am enjoying the experience.
But I don't know how the company and its products and community are structured, so please, by all means, tell me, rather than archly questioning assumptions I didn't make and asking me why I have not respected divisions that I do not even know exist.
Maybe there is a link that explains it all, dunno. I'll try to explain it "in short" :-) SUSE is the company that sponsors openSUSE, that's all. But they are not the same. SUSE is a company, openSUSE is a community. So openSUSE, the community, makes two distributions: Leap and Tumbleweed. SUSE, the company, makes a commercial Linux product (or more). SLE/SLES/SLED is the one that matters. The sources are published, and Leap is based on the commercial Linux version, SLE. Not entirely, just the core. The rest of Leap packages come from Tumbleweed. And openSUSE being made by the community means that it is done by volunteers, even if some are also SUSE employees. For an official answer, wait for RB's. :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)