Hi all! Okay, you know the drill. This one is the "openSUSE - For the productive poweruser". ---8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<--- == openSUSE - For the productive poweruser == === Statement === openSUSE should strive to be the productive distribution for powerusers on modern PCs (workstation, laptop, netbook, server) and having a healthy balance of innovation and stability. We cannot compete with Ubuntu for the übernoob segment, and we shouldn't compete with Fedora on being experimental bleeding edge - instead we should pick the middle ground. This strategy would be nicely in line with SLE and what (open)SUSE has historically been, and what existing users expect from openSUSE. The main purpose of the strategy in my opinion is to help developers, contributors and marketers all pull in same direction, and to clarify for users what openSUSE tries to be and do. NOTE: In my mind you don't have to be a kernel hacker or a guru sysadmin to be a poweruser, in my estimation powerusers cover: * ~10% of all PC users * ~50% of all Linux users * ~75% of existing openSUSE users * ~100% of existing openSUSE contributors == Activities == ==== We need to be excellent in the following ==== * Making sure as much as possible just works out of the box * Having good and sane defaults so the user can do what ''he'' wants to do * Focus on providing tools for being productive/creative (IDEs, editors, authoring tools, graphics manipulation, office productivity, etc.) * Providing admin tools that are powerful yet (reasonably) easy ==== We will try to do the following effectively ==== * Deliver a strong, general purpose distro that anyone can use without too much effort * Innovate and keep up with latest upstream developments === As project, we will not focus on the following anymore === * Dumbing things down for Aunt Tillie * Going out of our way to support old hardware and non-mainstream architectures * Supporting form-factors that are not workstation, laptop, server or netbook ---8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<--- -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9 prusnak[at]opensuse.org Czech Republic -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org