On Wednesday 28 July 2010 08:50:44 Will Stephenson wrote:
On top of the platform
On Monday 26 July 2010 22:00:55 Pavol Rusnak wrote: the openSUSE universe consists of more specific
distributions, which make use of openSUSE infrastructure and technology. Examples are SLES, MeeGo, openSUSE Education, KDE and GNOME live systems, and could also be for example developer or cloud oriented distributions and more.
This sounds a description of the status quo. What other derivatives do you have in mind that would actually represent a growth in overall openSUSE-derived distributions? How would you measure the potential success of this strategy?
The only really popular derivative distributions that I'm aware of are the legally dubious ones that include all the binary drivers, codecs and firmware out of the box. I'm consciously omitting Debian-Ubuntu from this because the enormous amount of work invested to make Debian into Ubuntu makes this unlikely to happen to a reference openSUSE, unless MeeGo bases completely on us. If that's seen as a realistic aim for this proposal, we should be honest about it and rename it 'Hook Up With MeeGo' :).
If I understand the strategy correctly, this one is not about providing a base to develop spins on (like the 'base for deriviates' strategy) but a platform to distribute software with and on for a variety of distributions, targeting developers. So very much focussing on techies, software developers, thus, and not, as the base for deriviates-strategy, focussing on endusers (through the spins). In this strategy the spins are just reference implementations, which might be great in themselves but aren't the core focus of the community.
Will
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