Well, do you know SUSE Linux Personal or SUSE Linux Professional? I think so. I´ve got an concept that maybe can stop them. I use this for my own distribution I´ve built with SUSE Studio. This concept looks like this: openSUSE: This system is for the beginners and for "home-users". openSUSE Professional: This system is for advanced users who can work with a system that´s maybe must be administrate over the terminal. But I think today openSUSE is a distribution for both user groups. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Jim Henderson Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 8:44 PM To: opensuse-project@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse-project] Re: What's the latest on the strategy discussion? On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:28:35 +0100, Kim Leyendecker wrote:
How do we define a "professional user"?
ie, is a professional user a:
* Computing professional * IT person * Enterprise user * Advanced home user (and if so, how do we define "advanced"?)
I think a professional user is that all. But the Enterprise User can use SUSE Linux Enterprise. That´s not the "problem" of openSUSE. I think he means an advanced user. In my eyes, this is a user who can install software via the terminal, know how Linux works and maybe who can write code in C.
We have a fairly significant audience that is non-coders, though. "Advanced" is also a fairly ambiguous term - but also we have to have "beginner" users, otherwise people don't grow into "advanced". That would imply (to me) that our intention to grow our user community is to take users who got their start on other distributions. I would think we'd want to grow our community by taking users from the Windows (and other desktop/server OS) user base. Otherwise, we're really talking about a Linux for Linux users, and I think that limits our userbase too much. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org