Søndag 04 juni 2006 08:21 skrev Peter Flodin:
People are confused. The market is confused. Novell even refers to openSUSE as a distro.
It is therefore totally understandable why OT posts happen this list, as the definition of what is On-topic is obviously not clear. Education is of limited value, because for every time we say openSUSE is the community and SUSE Linux is the distro, teh user will read a review of "openSUSE" or a press release from Novell such how the new driver proces will be available in openSUSE.
Instead of fighting against all this, as said in other thread, I think the community specific discussions should be in a new list called opensuse-community@opensuse.org.
This list can then be deleted.
We have to fight against this - the alternative is worse. We already have people thinking that SUSE and OpenSUSE are to different distros (including Randall apparently). Recently I saw this question on #opensuse: "Can I use SUSE RPMs on OpenSUSE?" People really don't get it. Some think OpenSUSE is just about an oss-version, some think it's a non-Novell fork, people think all kinds of stuff. But now we have removed the OSS naming - and every SUSE version is OSS until the user himself installs certain stuff - in time this'll help clear things up. We need to be firm and keep explaining it to people - including the Novell-guys - otherwise the confusion will be even greater than it already is. Personally I recently mailed Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols to complain about his incorrect use of OpenSUSE in a review. We have to educate people on what OpenSUSE is about - how else can we get members to join and be active? It's not just a matter of getting the "wrong" people off this list - it's also a matter of getting the "right" people on. If we repeat it often enough it must sink in to gernerel public sometime. "SUSE Linux is the distro - OpenSUSE is the Novell-sponsored community-project that provides it!" - It can't be that hard to understand. Martin Schlander --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org