Martin Schlander wrote:
Onsdag den 4. august 2010 17:59:00 skrev jdd:
The project really, really needs a clear identity and direction.
Whatever the cost (almost) ;-) it did well for more than 10 years without one, so it may not be
Le 04/08/2010 17:34, Martin Schlander a écrit : that important, or the strategy is simply : "do a good job with nice guys"
and it works
Not true.
S.u.S.E./SUSE Linux had a clear identity and direction. As a stable, polished, powerful, easy to use, professional distro. Everybody knew what to expect, and they got exactly that, and they loved it. And I'm sure developers knew exactly what direction to move in too.
The current muddy and confusing state has only been around for about 4-5 years. Starting somewhere between the Novell takeover and the creation of the openSUSE project. And steadily getting worse as the distro strays further and further from its roots. And the damage is enormous. Effective marketing is downright impossible and development is all over the place.
having had the pleasure of 'discovering' SuSE 9.x and a good, dependable, predictable "user experience" with initial upgrades...and then (along the timeline outlined above) distro turned less and less BMW/Mercedes-like and then with the Trabant-like qualities of the early 11.x series (especially with KDE4), i must agree completely with Martin! it seems that somehow openSUSE wandered off the road that SuSE/SUSE was steadfastly speeding along.. so much so that i've spent considerable time contemplating which distro now fits me best.. note: from the vantage point of the forums from about 10.2 forward i can say with some small level of authority that the folks _most_ enamored with the current offering are the bubblegum poppers spinning their cubes, playing games, stealing movies/music and doing almost _no_ 'work' with the center of their social universe (aka: computer/entertainment center) ymmv DenverD -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org