--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Bryen
--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
wrote: From: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] Unique about openSUSE? To: "Adi Nugroho" Cc: opensuse-marketing@opensuse.org Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 10:21 AM On 10/30/2008 05:33 AM, Adi Nugroho wrote: (4) The stability. Yes, excluding openSUSE 11.0, opensuse is a stable distro. Hopefully, openSUSE 11.1 is stable again
From: Bryen
Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] Unique about openSUSE? To: opensuse-marketing@opensuse.org Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 10:56 AM I. On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 06:41 -0700, ricardo varas s wrote: like ussual. I hear stability a lot -- Is there anything
specifically
about openSUSE that is more stable than others?
Not looking to knock other distros or anything -- just want to quantify "stability" a little further.
Best,
Zonker
Stability shows through well tested software we have in openSUSE. For example, ubuntu lives with software that is mostly unstable, and there you have a lot of problemas like applications freezing. And Mandriva used to hang just too much to me so after a week never used it again.
Greetings. -Ricardo Varas.
While I think Ricardo makes some great examples, are we able to quantify that with any statistics that show users have fewer problems on openSUSE than others?
I think just using those examples without any real quantification runs the risk of Joe having to respond to audience members saying "Hey, just because that guy didn't install very well, or had bad hardware, don't paint us as a crappy distro."
I'm sure the others do some testing. The focus should be then, why our testing methodologies are better than theirs, thus leading to such stability. Or is it because our upstream contributions usually give birth first by testing on an openSUSE box?
-- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member
Hi Bryen! I don't know today what testing methodologies have other distros, but I tend to believe that openSUSE release cycle allows a better stability level, besides being a Novell business is a plus too. About ubuntu (or eventually other distro), I don't think its crappy, but for me openSUSE works better in every way. Now, as users if any bug appears, we should report it with as much information as we can so next releases are even better. We all can help make openSUSE the best distro out there. -Ricardo Varas. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org