March 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] good news my friends :D
by Jos Poortvliet 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

I will push an article about this soon, but just FYI: openSUSE has done EXTREMELY WELL with the 11.4 release! So everyone, stand up, give yourself a pat on the back - because this is your work! Not just the hard work in the last 2-3 weeks, but also the work you have been doing as ambassadors around the world. Telling people about openSUSE is extremely important!!! Some numbers: well over 100.000 people have downloaded 11.4 within the first 24 hours! That is almost twice as many as 11.3!!!!! over 12.500 used bittorrent, over 90.000 via download.opensuse.org - and we're not counting those who upgraded by themselves or used susestudio.com!!! Awesome work ;-) I also had a look at our openSUSE statistics on opensuse.org/Statistics. Surprisingly, openSUSE is about 50% larger than fedora - I would've expected them to be bigger in terms of users... Compare for yourself at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics I wish Ubuntu would have numbers somewhere, they quoted between 6 and 8 million in the past (which makes them about as big as openSUSE) And I was thinking all that time openSUSE was lucky to be in the top-3 of distro's... But in reality, my friends, openSUSE is bigger than Fedora and might very well be bigger than Ubuntu!! Feel free to tell others about that ;-) Cheers and enjoy your weekends, you deserve it! Hugs, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Issue #166 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

Hi @all! Issue #166 of the openSUSE Weekly News is ready for translation [0]. You can see/update the status of your language at the "whats ready page" [1]. We collected some FAQ here [2]. [0]: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=7491 [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_translations [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Weekly_news/FAQ Have Phun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.homelinux.net German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE 11.4 Release Party
by James Mason 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

Time: Thursday, March 10 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm Location: The Copper Hog · 1327 North State Street After 8 months of hard work, the openSUSE community releases openSUSE 11.4 to the world on March 10. During the last 8 months, many things changed. The openSUSE conference has marked a new point in the evolution of openSUSE, resulting in renewed energy and new initiatives popping up in the months since the conference. Some of those already made it into this release (like Tumbleweed), others will come in future openSUSE versions. Come out and celebrate our release! First 10 RSVPs will have table seating and a free round. Additional attendees may party at the Copper Hog's most excellent bar. openSUSE 11.4 DVDs and swag will be available to all attendees, but please RSVP here so I know how many to bring! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169441903122687 - James Mason 'bear454' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] 11.5 vs. 12.0
by Kim Leyendecker 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

03/07/2011 jdd wrote: Now that 11.4 is done and nearly out, we can think of the future. Okay, let us think of the future..... After the whole discussion about the 11.4 vs 12.0 topic in the end of the development cycle for the done release, I think it´s better to talk on it now and make clear which goals we want achieve with the successor of 11.4. I don´t want to call it 11.5 or 12.0, just the "successor" till the version number is clear. For this, I have two ideas here: Eight months after the 11.4 release, we´ve got November 2011. So, the release maybe can be called *12*, because 2011 is a linux celebration year (1991-2011, twenty years). If we use this tactic, we have to release it on the 17th September, because Linux 0.01 was released on the same date. Or we say, 11.5 is the logical, evolutionaly and not revolutionary successor of 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 and 11.4 so it called *11.5* So far with the version game for marketing: What´s the technology way we want do for the 11.4 successor? Maybe.... * improvement of the LibreOffice integration * stable version of Firefox into the standard DVD/live CDs * KDE 4.x and GNOME 2.x _and_ GNOME 3.x * Unity? * Linux 2.6.xx so far, I know some people are very busy with the 11.4 release, and for them, I beg you to keep this thread in mind for the time *after* the 11.4 release, but if you can answer, if you have the time, do it now! thanks -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador http://www.suseusers.de.vu powered by openSUSE 11.4 RC2 | KDE 4.6 | Kernel-default 2.6.37.1-14 | using Tumbleweed openSUSE/Slashdot Profilname: openLHAG (OpenLHAG) Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] San Diego 11.4 Launch - Success, great attendance!
by Tony Su 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

The organizers of the local "Kernel-panic Linux User Group" (KPLUG) thanked Bryen and myself after our presentations after a well-received and very active evening and noting that the meeting attendance far exceeded their normal turnout. Because we considered that everyone in attendance were already users of some version of Linux, we modified our presentation content to focus on how openSUSE could help their choice of Distro and then later describe openSUSE not found in others instead of a rote listing of Distro features. Bryen opened with an overview of how the openSUSE umbrella now encompasses much more than just the Distro. I (Tony) followed up expanding on various openSUSE technologies, then took a short break to switch from the location's "presentation" laptop to a laptop running openSUSE for "live" demos. I (Tony) had determined that what most distinguished openSUSE from other distros was YAST, so almost all of the remainder of the evening was based on stepping through the YAST applets, which of course in turn also provided the framework for touching on just about all aspects of openSUSE in general (eg When talking about YAST software management, we also touched on the Zypper and RPM tools, and repeated earlier descriptions of OBS). Throughout the evening, we repeatedly mentioned openSUSE' interoperability, excellent hardware support, extensive list of software packages, and in particular ease of both hardware and software configuration. Both during and after the presentations Bryen and I fielded a number of questions related to the Microsoft/Novell arrangement, the philosophy and direction of openSUSE and of course basic questions like "How do I get openSUSE?" and "Which download do I really want?" and "I'm running XP, what do I have to do to install openSUSE?" A Thanks to Izabel Valverde and Carlos Alberto visiting from Brazil for their contributions during the evening as well. Hope all other launch parties were this successful! Tony -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] [11.4] gnome-shell not working (yet)
by Vincent Untz 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

Hey, It's unfortunate, but due to a late update of xulrunner in 11.4, gnome-shell is broken by default in openSUSE 11.4. The fix is rather simple (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676079 -- an update of gjs), but the online update is not out yet. Since that's something that is mentioned in the marketing materials we discuss, people will ask (and are already asking) about this. Don't hesitate to tell them that an online update will appear soon to fix this. Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Draft msg from Attachmate re: openSUSE 11.4 release
by Michael Miller 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

Hi all Thanks again to Bryen for this idea. Here's a draft of what Attachmate would like to post on Monday morning. We'll place it in our news section with a link on the attachmate.com homepage. I've purposefully kept it very simple and direct to limit the potential for over-analysis and mis-interpretation that might occur if we try to get to wordy. Let me know what you think. ------------------------------------------------------ On behalf of Attachmate, I’d like to congratulate the openSUSE Project for the release of openSUSE 11.4. We’re excited to see your latest advancements—the new LibreOffice, the latest GUI desktop versions, and numerous under-the-hood updates—all of which demonstrate your ongoing commitment to quality and innovation. Jeff Hawn Chairman and CEO Attachmate Corporation ------------------------------------------------------

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[opensuse-marketing] Twitter
by Chuck Payne 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

Guys, Remember if you are going to twit about the release, or any new about openSUSE, to use the hash tag #opensuse or #openSUSE So that we can track it. Thanks, Pup -- (678) 636-9678 ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question from Microsoft geeks on my FB page
by Tony Su 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

A fine line in terminology, When images are created for distribution, they're often then referred to as "appliances" particularly when they're pre-configured for some purpose (eg a LAMP stack). For example, 3 years ago I created a VMware appliance using 11.1/GroundworkOpensource/Nagios bundled with my own custom configurations for network monitoring in a Windows network. Distributing an appliance like that typically saves weeks if not months, instead typically you can be in Production within 30 minutes after pushing the "On" button. If the person has the DVD install, it takes only about the same amount of time to build your own base image compared to exchanging gigabyte files (typically about 1.5G compressed in my experience) over WANs. Also, it's probably not that useful to simply test whether the image launches (it almost certainly should unless it'a corrupted) but directed and organized testing could be useful... ie. special peripheral support in VMware, benchmarking (useful benchmarks require knowhow). IMO, Tony On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Jimmy PIERRE <jimmypierre.rouen.france(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 10 March 2011 19:36, Tony Su <tonysu(a)su-networking.com> wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> Jos and I had just this discussion with GregH in Germany. >> >> Greg reports that he has installed openSUSE 11.4 into Hyper-V without >> any problems (at least that he saw). >> >> Additionally, it looks like openSUSE will automatically install >> Hyper-V peripheral drivers automatically when available, this means >> that although installing most Linux distros likely will require the >> Hyper-V Linux Compatibility tools add-on (Similar to VMware tools, >> etc), it's unnecessary when installing openSUSE. >> >> Hurrah for one less step and less complications! >> >> As for "natively" -- It does seem that whoever used that word needs to >> explain what he means. >> >> Tony >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Matt Hayes <dominian(a)slackadelic.com> >> wrote: >> > On 3/10/2011 9:15 AM, Jimmy Pierre wrote: >> >>>>> Does Hyper V support openSUSE 11.4 natively? >> >> >> >> What would you answer? I run openSUSE on Virtual box, VMware, Xen, >> >> really >> >> not 100% sure. However, SLED/SLES are supported natively! >> >> >> >> Tricky hey? >> >> Best, >> >> Jimmy >> >> >> >> PS Have you started tweeting yet? >> >> >> > >> > >> > The last I recall openSUSE was fully supported on HyperV.. not sure >> > about new releases etc. >> > >> > -Matt >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org >> > >> > >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org > > Great! > > Thanks Tony, > > Maybe if we can share our vitualised images (Xen, VMware, VirtualBox) for > people to test? Something that Microsoft does already, they have Windows X > images as well as Echange and other applications, just off the shelf and > here you go. > > Cheers, > Jimmy > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question from Microsoft geeks on my FB page
by Jimmy PIERRE 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

On 10 March 2011 19:44, Jimmy PIERRE <jimmypierre.rouen.france(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 10 March 2011 19:36, Tony Su <tonysu(a)su-networking.com> wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> Jos and I had just this discussion with GregH in Germany. >> >> Greg reports that he has installed openSUSE 11.4 into Hyper-V without >> any problems (at least that he saw). >> >> Additionally, it looks like openSUSE will automatically install >> Hyper-V peripheral drivers automatically when available, this means >> that although installing most Linux distros likely will require the >> Hyper-V Linux Compatibility tools add-on (Similar to VMware tools, >> etc), it's unnecessary when installing openSUSE. >> >> Hurrah for one less step and less complications! >> >> As for "natively" -- It does seem that whoever used that word needs to >> explain what he means. >> >> Tony >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Matt Hayes <dominian(a)slackadelic.com> wrote: >> > On 3/10/2011 9:15 AM, Jimmy Pierre wrote: >> >>>>> Does Hyper V support openSUSE 11.4 natively? >> >> >> >> What would you answer? I run openSUSE on Virtual box, VMware, Xen, really >> >> not 100% sure. However, SLED/SLES are supported natively! >> >> >> >> Tricky hey? >> >> Best, >> >> Jimmy >> >> >> >> PS Have you started tweeting yet? >> >> >> > >> > >> > The last I recall openSUSE was fully supported on HyperV.. not sure >> > about new releases etc. >> > >> > -Matt >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org >> > >> > >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org > Great! Thanks Tony, Maybe if we can share our vitualised images (Xen, VMware, VirtualBox) for people to test? Something that Microsoft does already, they have Windows X images as well as Echange and other applications, just off the shelf and here you go. Cheers, Jimmy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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