2010/6/17 Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@gmail.com>: Hello,
I have to agree with Coolo. Frankly I'm a little confused and disappointed by the three proposed strategies.
I agree with Coolo and Martin on this. It doesn't seem to me the proposals actually reflect what openSUSE is and they seem to me too narrow.
What needed to be done was to decide how to diversify ourselves from other general purpose operating systems and define a target audience. But "developers", "derivate makers" or "cloud lovers" are all extremely narrow, niche target audiences. I can't support either one of those in their current form.
Yes, exactly.
This "position" is available because Ubuntu targets the übern00bs and Fedora targets the geeks - no gratis/community distro really targets people that want to be productive and get things done, without things being either too experimental or too dumbed down.
I cannot support a strategy that says "openSUSE - The KDE distribution", simply because I find it (again) disrespectful of what the other side (GNOME) did and is doing. It is time to move on, and targeting KDE means imho targeting desktop users, many of which use GNOME, of which we already have a very good implementation. Maybe we should leverage it more. In general however, I find this proposal more interesting than "cloud ready" or "for developers". A developer has no problem to download a tool he needs, if the base distro is good, and investing in the cloud imho is still an open question. Best, A. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org