Tirsdag den 2. juni 2009 17:58:15 skrev Marcus Moeller:

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Personally I think openSUSE could blow Fedora and Ubuntu out of the water in this particular niche market (home servers and "self-supported" servers in the enterprise) if only we tried.

openSUSE is not really accepted in enterprise as there is only a two year support lifecycle (this has nothing to do with the availability of a 'Server CD').

An option would be to fork to something like openSLE or to set up legacy repositories for some dedicated openSUSE versions (the ones with common SLE codebase).

Do you know that Fedora is only supported for about 13 months? Lots of people install Ubuntu non-lts (18 month support) server edition too. Of course I'm not talking about mission critical stuff in major corporations - they would need full support and certification and all that. But lots of small to medium sized businesses install stuff such as Fedora, Ubuntu non-lts - or even Gentoo or Slackware. Probably many larger businesses have a few boxes hiding in some corners with similar systems too. Just as an example Wikipedia recently switched from Fedora to Ubuntu. I've seen Danish hosting companies running Fedora too. Recently a guy asked about Fedora 9 on our mailinglist - they had set it up at his work place to be used as an NFS server. They had chosen F9 over F10, because apparently one of the guys there was somewhat familiar with F9 - they didn't give a rat's ass that F9 will be EOL in 2-3 months - or maybe they didn't even know. Long story short, there's a substantial "market" of gratis, self supported GNU/Linux servers. And openSUSE is not getting its "rightful" share. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org