On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@tin.it> wrote:
What is even worse , according to this http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7255 the only netbook to carry any version of SuSE is now not doing so, that is 7 out of 7 running something other than SuSE. No netbooks for my family this year ;) This is an important detail to me as these are largely going into children's hands and umm, I started the openSUSE EDU project. Please lets help HP and Lenovo come home!
How do you think openSUSE can make it on netbooks if Novell is pushing SLE there, clearly not understanding that the target user is different, and, as a consequence, people is not interested in an enterprise desktop, but wants something more flexible?
Another consideration is that to push openSUSE on netbooks, Novell would have to grant level of qualities of two distributions, SLE and openSUSE, while currently they have formally no obligation with respect to openSUSE.
In other words, I don't see any chance for openSUSE on netbooks if Novell doesn't wake up from the "Enterprise only" dream, and starts concentrating also on _actually_ making openSUSE what its slogan say: "The most usable Linux for home users". In this respect, I am very interested on the focus discussion, which should start sooner or later, about openSUSE goals.
Regards, Alberto
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I have been reading articles recently about Novell specifically their financial condition and, of course, OpenSUSE. I to am beginning to wonder where OpenSUSE lies with Novell and are we just test subjects for their improvement of SLED and SLES. Is Novell trying to get computer makers to place SLED on their systems and where does that take OpenSUSE in this area? Are we going to be just a home user experiment or can we come up with a strategy to entice users to use our operating system as a main part of their daily routine in using their computers? If we push to hard and users start adopting OpenSUSE and Novell loses users for SLED what will Novell do with OpenSUSE? These are just some of the questions we as the community need to start looking at. Since I have never read exactly what was in the take over of OpenSUSE by Novell I do sometimes think about this for our future. I am not saying this will happen but what if Novell falls upon dire financial straits is there anything we can do as the community to keep OpenSUSE going without Novell telling us to stop and desist? Or better written do we have plans if anything like this does occur? PeterPac www.InNetInvestigations-Forensic.com SuSE 10.2/SuSE 10.3/TriStar/Apache SuSE 11.1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org