Torsdag den 17. juni 2010 20:42:25 skrev Pascal Bleser:
On Thursday 17 June 2010 19:08:28 Martin Schlander wrote:
One thing that I thought was to be taken for granted from the beginning, is that openSUSE is supposed to be a general purpose operating system for server, desktop, laptop and netbook.
That is precisely what we didn't do. One main driver for the process we used to come up with proposals is that when you define a strategy, that strategy cannot be "everything and the kitchen sink", which is certainly what we are trying to do right now, because there are no clear objectives/goals (strategy? ;)).
I don't think that's being everything for everyone. It's cutting off handheld devices, weird minority architectures, ancient computers, toasters and other stuff some people think openSUSE should support. And desktops, laptops and netbooks are pretty much the same thing anyway - so you might as well just say "server and desktop" really.
My suggestion would have been something along the lines of: "openSUSE: The powerful distribution for the productive user"
That strategy would be so great because: 1) It's not too broad, but not too narrow either
Mmmm... to me, it's not very useful either, because it's so broad that it doesn't mean anything :)
It's a lot more narrow than what we have now ("the world's most usable linux"). But granted, it's not as narrow as making openSUSE a small specialist distro targetting one small niche of users only.
2) It's in line with what SLE is about
Why would we care about SLE ?
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