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On Sunday, April 29, 2012 02:26:30 AM C wrote:
Steam for Linux has been floated a few times starting int 2010. ... Today I spotted this: http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/04/canonical-in-touch-with-valve-to-ensure. html?utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UbuntuVibes+%28Ubuntu+Vibes%29&utm_medium=feed&ut m_source=feedburner
and this made me wonder... are we (as a project) also approaching Valve in some official capacity too ...
SUSE as company can do that, but openSUSE as cloud like entity is not really interesting for Valve [1]. They need someone that can guarantee that game store for openSUSE users will be present in every release, visible and easy to use. Games will ask for certain level of stability in every release, easy access to proprietary graphic drivers and possible more proprietary components, that could mean more mandatory purchases of other components that make multimedia support for games. With current SUSE goals, to serve enterprise market, not individual consumers, this would require serious adjustment in openSUSE treatment, or creating completely new edition that will be supported for a longer time, media oriented, purchase based [2]. Will that benefit openSUSE? I think yes, specially that openSUSE doesn't need much adjustments, nor much time to create product that will support media stuff. Problem is public perception reflected on http://www.distrowatch.com , http://alexa.com [3] and probably other sites, that openSUSE is similar to Fedora. It is obvious that Ubuntu has some advantage, at least in size of user base, and public perception that they are friendly distro for beginners and all that want to use computer, but not to dive in computer internals. openSUSE can fix that in a few years, that much needed Ubuntu to raise from newcomer on the Linux scene to the most used distro. But, that will not happen with current goals that cut fine to linux oldtimers, do-it-yourself guys, but not to current trends where more users are coming that use computer to do stuff that is not computer configuration. [1] You can see it, but you can't touch it, nor sign even the weakest form of agreement unless you go to chase every droplet that makes cloud. [2] Purchase. It is not simple purchase installation CD. It could be purchase game with link to site that will provide installation ISO, offer CD/DVD to order with preinstalled game(s), [3] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/opensuse.org# There is slight drop comparing to last year. Also, http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ubuntu.com . -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org