Mandag 02 marts 2009 17:08:39 skrev Rajko M.:
What do you think?
I think the success of Ubuntu is maybe 80% cunning marketing and hype and 20% technical/"usability" reasons. I think openSUSE is very suitable for new users, and has good things to offer for new users like 1-click install, yast/sax2 offers much more graphical configuration than ubuntu can ever dream of, 24 month support window for all releases, a nice box set with a manual etc. On the other hand you have to give some credit to Ubuntu, they have a very clear goal - namely fixing their famous Bug #1 - and they are very focused and determined to achieve this goal and the whole community seems to pull in the same direction. Whereas openSUSE doesn't have clear goals. I've been very active in openSUSE for a few years now, and it's still unclear for me what openSUSE is actually intended to do - is it "testbed for SLE", "bleeding edge for geeks", "the world's most usable linux" or something else entirely? Surely those goals are not all compatible. I really don't know which it is. KDE 4.0 pushing, constantly changing and buggy updater applets, horribly broken x.1 releases, generally very early adoption of questionable technologies, always releasing on a set date regardless of quality, indicates that openSUSE is intended to be a toy for geeks. I also think the community is split on this. Half of users - predominantly the long time users I think - want and expect openSUSE to be sane, reliable and productive, whereas the other half wants and expects openSUSE to be exciting and experimental bleeding edge to play with. So I guess the first question should be whether openSUSE is actually _intended_ to be suitable for new (non-geeky) users. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org