Andreas Jaeger wrote:
I've just send out to people that report to me the following request and like to share it with you so that you know what's going on if you see discussions starting and can look at the webpage as well.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ openSUSE 10.3 is a really great release and I'd like to thank you for your participation on it. To take a break and some inspiration I'd like you to take some time now (let's say two days) and look at other current distributions and operating systems and check what they can do better, or how could we improve our products.
Looking at operating systems, I consider the following most interesting but feel free to look at others as well: * Fedora 8 Test 3 * Ubuntu/Kubuntu 7.10 Beta * Mandriva 2008 * PCLinuxOS * Windows Vista * Mac OSX
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.
* Look at the installation, what do you like and hate?
* Check the area you're most familiar in, e.g. printing, and see how it's integrated, e.g. configure a printer and print some documents. What is different compared to openSUSE 10.3? Where is the user experience different?
* Use the machine for some work, play around with it. How do you like it?
Please write down your experience on the openSUSE wiki at http://en.opensuse.org/Distro_Inspirations - and if you see things that you like to discuss, discuss them on the opensuse-factory mailing list.
Try to evaluate the distribution from a desktop user perspective - and if you want to evaluate it differentely, please state it.
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Andreas
One thing I forgot to mention in my previous post, Ubuntu has a thriving community of contributors. Every week I see a number of articles on how to do this or that on Ubuntu, usually appearing on linuxtoday and slashdot amongst others. One such article referred to me on this list did fix a problem I had with grub when I removed a dying hard drive which was /dev/sda and the previous /dev/sdb became /dev/sda. Many of the Ubuntu HOWTO articles address how to do stuff that is also applicable to openSUSE, though references throughout is about apt-get and dpkg. Many of the solutions to problems offered on this list would make good articles --- I must have a good look at the opeSUSE wiki, I'm sure there is noteworthy stuff that describes HOWTO on openSUSE, but the openSUSE angle never gets stressed enough. If you have Ubuntu and you want to know how to do something specific, there is almost always a result from a google search. 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