Eric Springer wrote:
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 5:45 AM, James Tremblay aka SLEducator <fxrsliberty@opensuse.us> wrote:
I believe that openSUSE would have been just as good a fit on a netbook as this: http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=1221&tag=nl.e539 I think the reason things like this keep going Ubuntu is not that Ubuntu is better but that LTS makes Ubuntu more usable and more re-installable because its less update intensive. openSUSE 10.3 , A very likable and usable version takes almost 2 gb of updates to get to it's best. if all these updates had been rolled into a 10.3 LTS ISO it could have taken HP's breath away! It's our duty to find a way to keep the libre\free version of SUSE as close to enterprise as possible without stealing it's thunder. We have to find a blend of reliability and pioneering edge. SLED moves to slow for personal usage yet, IMHO , openSUSE seems to move to fast.
There's probably a lot of performance / bloated perception problems too, especially for such an underpowered machine. Out of the box, openSUSE crawls on my netbook (Acer Aspire One) while Ubuntu is quite nippy. Of course, with a few file system tweaks, a new kernel, removing beagle and a couple other services -- openSUSE is every bit as fast. Yet it leaves people with the impression "openSUSE is slow, Ubuntu is fast."
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! -- James Tremblay openSIS Product Specialist http://www.os4ed.com mail james "AT" os4ed.com CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/education -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org