On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Kevanf1 wrote:
Thinking along the lines of this thread and bringing it back on track to SuSE :-) Wouldn't it be a good idea for Novell to set up a SuSE Lite version? Lightweight desktop, one office suite, no development tools etc. Just the very basics of SuSE. It could be called SLite Linux. There's an opportunity for it with open SuSE as a derivative even.
Doesn't have to be SUSE, of course; Anyone can bend, fold, spike SUSE to their own taste. Help from the masters is needed: I'm one one of the Ubuntu lists )sounder), and recenly somone pointed out screenshots from a wannabe-derivitave. "Hmpf," someone said, "looks like "Ubuntu!" "Oh no!," said a wig. We stuffed up, it should be easier than that for them to rebrand it. Another question is who's the intended audience. If you want converts from other distros, then migration has to be easier. SUSE10 looks enough like Red Hat variets I'm consistently being caught out by things that "should" work but don't. eg I want gpm to run in runlevel 5. On RHL I'd use chkconfig to make it so. On SUSE chkconfig is present and appears to work. I listed the status quo, I ran it to change it, I ran it to see what I'd changed it to. All seemed good, it just didn't actually work. It seems to me that Red Hat and Debian are closer than Red Hat and SUSE: in the former the differences are pretty obvious.