On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 13:04 +0100, Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 11:26 +0100, Lars Müller wrote:
Such a comparison is a task for Linux magazines. The vendors might provide an overview what's included in which version (glibc, bash, KDE, Gnome, Firefox, Samba, ...). The other and for the users more important question is how well integrated are the different parts to make it a good = useable product. Shure, but two things: You can write that 11.2 has the latest (what ever that may mean) versions of firefox, thunderbird OO.o, for working safer and faster and bla-die-bla. But that is what they all do....
Agree, a side-by-side comparison of distro's is also *boring*. Another problem is that, like the vast majority of current articles, is that the reviews are all so completely superficial; maybe due to length restrictions, maybe due to the quality of the authors. It would end up, almost certainly, being just the author's bias or preference. The state of 'IT journalism' is pathetic; personally I yearn for the glory days of BYTE when articles were about the technology and contained benchmarks, etc... rather than just being [very] thin product reviews.
Shure, Microsoft has a larger share desktop-users. Specialy then, a list of comparable products for endusers might be worthwhile. (and explictly mentioning wine for ommisions on the *nix-list)
Seriously? Recommending WINE for end-users? That is a horrible crash-and-burn loose-them-forever strategy.
I still remember that someone at suse mentioned that SuSE were supporting more hardware out-of-the-box than Microsoft. Emphasize on that!
No, LINUX supports more hardware than Windows; this is not a SuSE specific thing. Lets not fall into the Ubuntu mindwash trap where we attribute all greatness to our favorite distro. This also shouldn't be peddled to end-users since it is actually pretty meaningless - if it doesn't support the specific device you have - you're not impressed. http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/10/how-linux-supports-more-device.html http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/foswiki/bin/view Somebody did a good podcast interview of Greg Kroah-Hartman (directory of the LINUX Driver Project), but I can't seem to find it now [FLOSS Weekly or LINUX Outlaws?].
It boils down to the main question: Do you want to promote why 11.2 is good?
Yes.
Or do you want to promote why 11.2 is better (compared to others)!
YaST! SuSE / openSUSE is the only distro with something beginning to resemble a centralized configuration tool; this is a huge usability boon. No fumbling about: Where is the tool to configure that? [like "system-config-securitylevel-tui"; yep, that is so user friendly]. Sane packaging. openSUSE packages have sane dependencies [my biggest gripe against Ubuntu besides its lack of YaST]. -- openSUSE http://www.opensuse.org/en/ Linux for human beings who need to get things done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org