On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:29 AM, agustin benito bethencourt <abebe@suse.com> wrote:
As you know openSUSE has a solid reputation about a heavy distro, and for "heavy" I'm thinking about to be a slow system. This is one. I'm using Linux since 1993 and I know more or less the Linux community. This perception is changing, but in a slowly way. By the way, openSUSE has a very strong reputation about to be a solid and stable distro.
And in terms of the project as a whole?
I think it's very unknown. There are other projects with much more community (like Fedora or Ubuntu, for example). But I'm confident that this will be changing in the future.
3.- What is your perception, your picture?
My picture is that openSUSE needs a Long Term Service (more than the 3 years that we can afford with the EverGreen program). I'm talking about 5 years. If we can penetrate in the server market like Ubuntu LTS (sorry for the comparisons but are inevitables), openSUSE will be a very used and strong distro.
So in your opinion, increasing the maintenance cycle would be enough to get a perception of being a competitor of Ubuntu LTS? Where (in which niches/areas/market) do you think we could compete?
We are very strong in the areas of desktop and workstations, but if all the system administrators could use openSUSE in the servers, the developers could use more openSUSE because it would be the same as used on servers. It may be stupid, but I have many years watching this dynamic. By the way I'm not saying that increasing the maintenance cycle will be the only thing to do to be "The Option". There are other options to work, such as making all OBS packages directly available in a search from zypper / yast. Cheers. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have a nice day ;-) TooManySecrets /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.1 \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | GNU/Linux Since 1993. X - NO Word docs in e-mail | openSUSE Member since 2008 / \ - http://blog.toomany.net | http://twitter.com/toomanysecrets --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org