On Friday 06 March 2009 06:26:08 pm James Tremblay aka SLEducator wrote:
... I was hoping to inspire the notion that if SLED is to be the rock solid undeniably enterprise ready version why couldn't openSUSE at least be as off the shelf functional as Ubuntu (baring non-oss inclusions). I don't like being second place merely because I forgot to cross the "T's" and dot the "i's" and lets face it, that has been the biggest issue since 10.2 was released because Novell and the community are doing so well. Now I'm not saying it's possible to do all that crossing and doting at release but a hardened version or a 10.3 with all the last changes released as a "10 Final" would not hurt us or Novell. It would merely increase the curiosity with regard to the question "if the community version is this good, why not get support and all the non-oss stuff for xx$, on my next PC?"
It's our duty to find a way to keep the libre\free version of SUSE as close to enterprise as possible without stealing it's thunder. We have to find a BETTER blend of reliability and pioneering edge.
I'm glad that you posted the question, because my feeling is that all that is missing can't be better described then you did. It is actually small effort to think from layman prospective and give him safe start point. The rest of us will find our way as we always did. One possible way to make openSUSE more attractive with very little effort would be to periodically release new DVD/CD that will contain all bug fixes. We have anyway bunch of development DVDs, one more, call it Remaster, would not take much more time to create, not that much effort as it did before. Updating of both DVDs, new that can be downloaded, and old that people may find in magazines, or on shelves, will go as usually. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org