On Wednesday, December 14, 2011 04:48:22 AM Linux Tyro wrote:
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Roger Luedecke
wrote: Even better idea, how about we make a list where people come mow my lawn for free? I'm a lawn newbie and I don't have time to do it myself. Other people who know a lot about lawns and own lawnmowers should share their lawnmowers and their saturdays with lawn newbies.
Look, we frankly aren't based on the idea of noob-friendliness. Frankly though, with YaST and a strong stance on security we actually wind up being more friendly than most. And a mailing list isn't a matter of wealth, and even if it was Canonical isn't doing better than the companies under Attachmate. From most estimates I'm aware of, Canonical isn't even profitable. Thats okay and I have liked suse much but at least you can have the docs like that of Ubuntu? See https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/basic-commands/C/ where all things are explained from such a basic level that even persons from other field can read so nicely and learn something which people often misunderstand to be geeky. Well, in fact and in realities, while I have liked Suse more than Ubuntu (because of more clean and better architecture) but you can have such documentations which would be an added advantage, especially for us.
Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org We do have some veery good documentation, but I actually agree that we could be doing a better job of it. OpenSUSE is a strange animal in relation to Novell/SuSE/Attachmate. Though we are largely sponsored by SuSE, we are essentially an independent entity, and have very little practical connection with SuSE. Our primary connection is that many of the Novell and SuSE developers donate their free time to helping openSUSE with the building of the software and with fixes. But we are a primarilly volunteer organization, unlike Ubuntu or even Fedora. Essentially SuSE sits back and watches what we do and will gradually absorb our tech into their own Enterprise Linux, at which point we will then reap the benefit of fixes and improvements to that which they pick up.
If anything stated here needs correction or elaboration, please feel free. I am also still learning all the intricacies. -- Roger Luedecke openSUSE Ambassador Riverside, California ***Looking for C++ Mentor*** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org