On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Linux Tyro <opensuse.bkn1@gmail.com> wrote:
hi,
I just wanted to confirm something I came to know from somewhere:
"openSUSE/SUSE is having less members in the team(s) developing it as compared to the Fedora/Red-hat team."
Its only a line, I was just seeing it this is correct or not... I don't know but want to know
-- THX --
I think you're missing the boat with this. First SUSE and REDHAT both have paid staff that develop / maintain / support / take end-user-calls for their respective commercial offerings. I don't know which one is a bigger staff and as a openSUSE user I really don't care. Second, the company Redhat uses Fedora as a R&D project for the commercial offering. Thus many claim Fedora is "bleeding edge". So if you want the latest and greatest and you don't care about backward compatibility, Fedora is a good place for you to be. openSUSE attempts to be more stable, so often they wait for a package etc. to get some exposure to world in Fedora, then the openSUSE devs will bring it over to openSUSE. They both use similar packaging (RPMs, specfiles, etc.) so it is in theory fairly easy to do that. So the question is not which has the bigger set of developers, it is what do you want. Bleeding edge, or slightly slower, but more stable. A perfect example of this is systemd. The overall services and boot process has been managed by /sbin/sysvinit for 15 years or so. Some claim it is getting long in the tooth, so systemd has been developed as a replacement. Fedora started using systemd a while ago. They have experienced many toothing pains. That effort has been pushed back to the upstream developers. openSUSE 12.1 (released any day now) defaults to systemd for the first time. I fully expect there will be integration issues etc, but it should be far less traumatic than when Fedora made the same jump because all of the Fedora effort that openSUSE is able to leverage. Greg. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org