On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Pavol Rusnak wrote:
We cannot compete with Ubuntu for the übernoob segment, and we shouldn't compete with Fedora on being experimental bleeding edge - instead we should pick the middle ground.
I don't think this is a fair characterization of Fedora. In my experience Fedora has been rather solid -- at the edge of things in terms of versions and not shy of version updates even after a release, but it's not feeling more experimental than openSUSE, rather more progressive.
This strategy would be nicely in line with SLE
Is this a benefit, a disadvantage, or neutral?
and what (open)SUSE has historically been
Is this a benefit, a disadvantage, or neutral?
* Making sure as much as possible just works out of the box * Having good and sane defaults so the user can do what ''he'' wants to do * Focus on providing tools for being productive/creative (IDEs, editors, authoring tools, graphics manipulation, office productivity, etc.) * Providing admin tools that are powerful yet (reasonably) easy
Hard to disagree with any of these. :-) The first, second, and mostly fourth, specifically, really would be the same across all serious scenarios, wouldn't they? Gerald