On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:23:19PM +0200, jdd wrote:
If they hold back the development of SUSE, yes. I am not interested in one distribution for everybody. If that is 80%, then so be it. I am not intersted in becoming the largest OS, or be a replacement of Windows or whatever. I just want the best distribution for me.
here, I think, you should write a smiley. because the best distribution for anyone alone he must have to make it himself.
No. No smiley. I participate in the distro that comes closest to what I want.
opensource software like openSUSE is a collective effort.
Yet it is not the same.
it's an evidence for many that opensource being free if right fitted for poor countries, the opensourceness giving confidence on not having backdoors can be a very thought plus also.
Great. And that is the open source part. I am not saying to use closed source, I am saying to use another distribution, like DSL.
Not anybody trust america when america is written Microsoft.
Novell is American. If trust in a country is an issue, use Mandriva, wich is French, or any other non-US based distribution. SUSE is American.
are other distribution specialized in older or lowerend hardware.
I think this is a great mistake. I don't know for sure where will be Africa in the next ten years, but I'm pretty sure China and India will be in the first place.
And you believe that the people will still have old hardware? I don't think so.
I read somewhere than Idians are already the very first programmers in the hole world (indians originally from india, may be true french or american citizens).
Yes, and they program on recent machines that are able to run the modern distributions.
I see all days products of China built under the ISO9000 standards, the best one.
And what does this have to do with anything?
In thouse countries, of course the first grade people work as we do with moderns hardware, but most of the population don't and I'm sure they will appreciate our collaboration.
Sure they will apreciate the work. That does not mean that we should focus on haveing SUSE work on all hardware, especially not older hardware and especially not if it takes away labour from SUSE development. If there is time left, then I have absolutely no problem with it.
just look at the list of the new wikis. the majority today is for countries not really in the top ten.
Not countries, languages. e.g. to have a Dutch wiki will be very hard, because almost all Dutch speaking people will be able to read, write and contribute to the English one. That does not mean that there are no Dutch speaking SUSE users. It just means that there is perhaps no interest in having their own wiki. I know I still look at `EN` apges instead of `NL` pages.
that fits you. That solution must not always be Novell.
why?
Because competition is a good things. Also because each and every user will have different demands. This will result in different demands. You can not, within reason, expect this to be one distribution. To have only Novell as an OS provider is just as scary as having Microsoft as the only OS provider.
one of the strengh of Linux is that with little effort, the same distribution can fit an enormous variety of hardware.
I would say a lot-of-effort, especially when it goes to older hardware, If it is very little effort, then by all means, please. It is not that I want to halt people using SUSE on older and low-end machines. I just don't like if developers waste time with it that should have gone into developement.
and as long as the ncurse version of yast will exist, openSUSE is one of the best fitted distribution for lowend hardware.
The hardware you keep talking about and what you are pushing is not able to do the installation, because of e.g. memory problems.
this mean we should probably have a small subset of the wiki on a simpler html site
Oh, please, be serous. The site is absolutely not heavy. It is mainly text and a 56K user should, with a curent browser, be perfectly able to see the site. I have browsed years with 33.6K and have seen pages that were larger then what we have now.
don't forget today 56k users are to be tomorrow adsl users...
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