On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:12 PM, jdd <jdd@dodin.org> wrote:
Le 17/06/2010 20:42, Pascal Bleser a écrit :
One thing that I thought was to be taken for granted from the beginning, is that openSUSE is supposed to be a general purpose operating system for server, desktop, laptop and netbook.
That is precisely what we didn't do.
???
I think SuSE already did, and openSUSE do already!! why reduce our goals?
Did you notice we have a *new* default config (lxde) afaik mostly done by contributors?
I have desktop openSUSE *and* openSUSE server, *and* laptop openSUSE of my own, and certainly don't want to have Debian as server, openSUSE as desktop and so on...
The question at the core of this is whether we believe that with the current contributor base, it is realistic to try to be everything to everyone.
our base is shared between these parts, if we cut one we cut our base. and smaller base (servers) is also the more productive as contributors!
If openSUSE become only a kde distro, I will certainly switch to Debian, because I *need* the same one as server and desktop.
> desktop, laptop and netbook", the only remaining option is to reduce the
scope, and focus on certain domains.
this is certainly a dead end
I 100% agree with jdd, cross platform compatibility is key. I use linux on servers, workstations and laptops, and possibly a future netbook. I have no desire to learn 3 sets of admin tools so I can run OS on the workstation and CentOS (etc.) on the server, and some light desktop on the laptop/desktop. For the X interface, I currently use KDE everywhere just because I only want to keep up with one UI. (On the servers, I only get X if I do a startx, which is not very often.) If a netbook pushed me to LXDE, I'd probably switch everywhere to LXDE. (I am clearly not a power X user. I am a power CLI user.) Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org