On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.de> wrote:

In one of my previous mails I and several other people have proposed to split openSUSE into a "common core" base that contains the newest hardware enablement and base system (compiler, kernel etc), and the addons, like the desktops. both can be released independently and the common core can be released in a staged fashion, allowing people to use a stable base system or the most recent base system, one of which might be ideal for their hardware.

It was dismissed as "very hard to promote a new openSUSE release which only changes the base system", but I have the counter argumetn: it is a lot easier to promote a new desktop on a stable openSUSE base system (that was released and fixed already).

Greetings, Dirk

For what it's worth, I think it's a fantastic idea. It'd be short sighted to dismiss this for marketing reasons, when (imo) we'd end up with a clearly superior product. I know it's not exactly the marketing being referred to, but I recently recommended and offered to install openSUSE on a colleague's laptop. After using it for a little, I was forced to eat my words -- ask around for an XP cd -- and put it back on. It was simply far too buggy/crashy/unstable, and I can't very well say "Oh, just wait a couple weeks and the updates should/might sort it out". So we can have something that we can market (Shiny new release!) or something that is actually marketable. =) Besides, if we used this to be the first major distro to release for new versions of gnome, kde and xfce that in itself would be more publicity than we currently receive. -- Eric Springer (Erikina) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org