On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 19:28 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:38:56 Nelson Marques wrote:
Hi all,
I've been looking for this for quite some time as I might be interested in exploring something new... Here's a bit about the idea:
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I know this is just a junk non-organized email... but it will take form and in this stage it's best for us to check if it's reliable to do it using this platform and that it brings no coalitions with openSUSE, in fact it would awesome to know what openSUSE community members think about it...
It's a cool idea and wouldn't be hard to do with the buildservice and SUSEStudio. openSUSE ain't a KDE distro, btw, it happens to be what the majority of users (probably) use but otherwise it's no more KDE than it is Firefox (again something the majority uses) or similar stuff.
Again, pretty cool project, please go ahead with it. When it comes to trademarks, don't worry too much about that yet - just create it and call it openSUSE based, should be good enough for now ;-)
When it comes to marketing, I'd say you should be sure to send announcements to news.opensuse.org!
BTW don't take to many plans like these on your plate, I mean, you also wrote about doing these openSUSE courses, unless you have about 60 hours a week to spend on this stuff or a team of people, you won't have time for both - if you want to do it right :D
I've already blogged about and my concerns... Merc and Merc Retro are going to see life one of this days. Merc Retro will be a minimalistic install (only the very own required stuff) and will feature a set of emulators only (ex: Atari, Capcom System 16, Sega Genesis/Master System, SNES, Amiga). Not providing sensible stuff like ROMS or BIOS dumps. Just the emulators. Something people can use on old 256/512Mb's usb sticks. Merc will be a 'tool kit' utility used for tasks... network monitoring, filesystem recovery, MBR recovery... any utilities that might be interesting to have around whenever needed without requiring to install the full load. I will try to build some enthusiasm around artwork around this and will try to make out of it a artwork showcase for themes and other stuff. That's pretty much the plan :) nm
nelson
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