On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 14:03, jdd wrote:
And therein lies a question... why? Why is Ubuntu gaining so much at the expense of others like openSUSE?
may be because the cd was available at no cost by post office !
but this is no longer, so will see is ubuntu still have so any success
jdd NB: and it's a cd, not a dvd
Mmmm I don't believe for a second that a mailed CD is the reason Ubuntu is popular. In days gone by maybe that was an issue but now? Even when I've been in Kenya and Rwanda where internet isn't the fastest or most reliable, people there are downloading not mail-ordering Ubuntu if they are wanting Linux, not the openSUSE LiveCDs (which are roughly the same size to download). No one wants to wait around for the slow postal system to deliver them a CD... it's the "do it now or I lose interest" mentality :-P openSUSE provides essentially the same LiveCD concept as Ubuntu as well.. so it's not that we're missing a LiveCD with whichever DE you prefer.. they are there and really easy to get. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org