On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@suse.com> wrote:
On 12/02/2013 05:12 PM, Klaas Freitag wrote:
On 02.12.2013 13:10, agustin benito bethencourt wrote: From my experience as somebody who has to build bin packages of a product of a "small opensource company" I can tell: Customers mainly ask for Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian. If we as company get in touch with openSUSE it is because we pushed it during the POC phase. I can not remember that somebody asked for openSUSE on the server. People stay away because they don't know or because there is no LTS (in their opinion).
We should not dream the "all the FOSS companies will help us" dream. IMHO.
I agree.
We will only get more people "clamoring" for openSUSE by gaining mind share. This occurs through advocacy and marketing. Fiddling with the release cycle or pushing the quality to ever new heights will not do the trick.
I've been following this discussion, but with little to add untiul tonight when I stumbled across this: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20131202#feature Quoting the author: --------------- For reasons I've never quite understood the openSUSE distribution has always held an unusual place in my mind. Were someone to ask me about the most popular and user-friendly distributions I'd readily talk about Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, Mageia and Debian. Chances are the openSUSE distribution would completely slip my mind. However, if someone were to specifically ask me for my opinion of openSUSE I would happily and heartily recommend the distribution. I don't know why openSUSE, as much as I respect it, doesn't stand out more in my thoughts. Perhaps the openSUSE project just doesn't attract as much news coverage as other open source projects. ------------- Maybe there's something to be learned from the statement? C. -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org