2009/2/9 James Tremblay aka SLEducator <fxrsliberty@opensuse.us>:
The weak point of an LTS, with frozen software, is that it supports less and less new hardware.
I don't think it's as important as you think to keep hardware support up to date on the LTS, We want the guy who says I'm fraking tired of malware\viruses and registry hacks.
I see where you're coming from, but sometimes folk upgrade their systems with new graphics cards, or need to replace parts. Adding devices with USB to. To me it's not unsurmountable, if an 'advanced' kernel was made easily available, with a 'fallback' for installing and tide over till regression is fixed when the 'recommended' doesn't work.
To really overcome the perceived #1 statuses of Fedora/Red Hat & Ubuntu in different fields, don't we have to find something significantly better, that pre-disposes folk running proprietary UNIX or Windows to consider OS & SLE as a front runner?
Find something significantly better? No , YaST IS significantly better, is it helping? We need to produce something significantly more usable, Significantly more reliable when it comes to the expected output of an installation and significantly less visible after installation. Joe Plumber does not care that gnome is stale or that Banshee is missing MP5 support as long as the function he expects is there. What concerns Joe is the ability to install or update a particular function when he needs it, not his entire installation. Why do you think so many people resist change? Why was XP given a stay of execution. Why don't people quit jobs they hate? Because change = work!
Not enough to be significantly technically better, but also need to get the message out and understood. I read a shocking review in PC Plus for instance on the new 11.1, as it was a mish-mash of general criticism which in my mind don't stand up (at level apt > rpm), own configuration tools that only SuSE users like and such. The thing is, it does no good just quietly being superior and fix useability nits, if nobody else notices, because they are ill equipped to share what seems obvious to us. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org