On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 12:57 +0200, Will Stephenson wrote:
* No brand new desktop release (KDE SC 4.4.5, GNOME 2.30) to encourage installations. For many of our users the desktop is openSUSE. For the rest of them there were even fewer attractive changes: GCC 4.5? No new Xorg. No Plymouth, or Upstart. Btrfs is only attractive to tweakers. The LXDE edition seems to have generated quite a lot of interest, however, but it remains niche.
NB we will be releasing 11.4 right after KDE SC 4.6 comes out in the winter so we'll have the drop on other major distros that will release in the spring. We should start planning how to market this and to talk to other teams to discover what features will be coming up in the next 6 months and make some noise about them. As a concrete step, I have proposed a talk about new KDE features in 11.4 for the openSUSE conference, and am kindling discussions in the openSUSE KDE group about the features they may want to add into 11.4
Interesting to know about the timing of KDE at 11.4 release. I should probably mention that yesterday I encountered a new user singing the praises of openSUSE after having just switched from another distro. When I asked him yesterday why he made the switch, he said it was because of the availability of GNOME 3.0 Preview. Now you mention that KDE SC 4.6 is scheduled for release around the time of 11.4. GNOME 3.0 is also scheduled for release in March (though I'm not sure if 11.4's release date will perfectly match that.) This could potentially be a verrry interesting release time for the Marketing Team with two major desktop releases at the same time. Could be just the infusion we've been looking for. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org