Kim But if our Enterprise cousins can run SUSE on Jaguar Cray's then its obviously perfect for Servers also, but it depends if we are just talking about openSUSE or including into the identity the commercial versions. I only found out yesterday that SUSE is running on WySE Terminals something i never knew before. I have inspired quite a number of people in uni this week to build their final year bachelor projects around openSUSE Linux running on Beowulf Clusters and connecting in with openSUSE / LXDE / kiwi-ltsp to replicate thin client technology by reclaiming and reusing older computer hardware. This concept will proove that openSUSE can run on desktops, servers and thin clients from end to end, managed nodes, management console and through a pxe boot environment into the terminals. Thank you to the community you inspire me to great things every single day!! Don't forget that SLES is openSUSE just with older software for stability. Stuart On Wednesday 09 Feb 2011 17:17:54 Kim Leyendecker wrote:
For me, openSUSE is a desktop-distro. I often introduces it as "the perfect desktop for you" But we´re not just into the desktop-market. I installed openSUSE 11.3 as a server, and with Tumblweed + Evergreen we have two projects, that gives us the chance, to be on some different markets. I think, for server, we need more than 2 years of support. But theirs SLES, and support you can get from Novell... So why should be openSUSE a server-distro!?
As a short answer:
In my eyes, openSUSE is a desktop distro. The best you can get. We have so much supported desktops. Their is KDE, GNOME and LXDE. Than Xfce, you can use IceWM, or just a lightweight X Window System..... For me, openSUSE is perfect for desktops
cheers kdl
Am 09.02.2011 02:21, schrieb Kostas Koudaras:
2011/2/8 Manu Gupta<manugupt1@gmail.com>:
Hi all,
What does openSUSE focus on
- Do we focus on Desktop?
- Do we focus on Servers?
- We say we focus on balance,but what does that actually mean?
I ask this because
We are not as polished as a Desktop
Our life cycle is not suited for Servers / Sysadmins.
Nor are we exactly rolling releases, might be tumbleweed but there are 100s of old packages too
I think we should be able to change that with 11.4 release atleast that helps a lot. So if we do not decide it soon, we will certainly go under an already existing identity crisis which is not good for the community.
We should regardless of anything, yes even the strategy (although more alligned with it is preferable) must have a few plans to focus on for 11.4 release. Attracting a particular audience should change a lot of perspective outside the community.
Regards Manu
Apart from what Bryen said about directed to the wrong list I think that you are underestimating openSUSE. Today I traveled to Larisa(a city about 150 klm away from my city) in order to attend to a presentation of KDE 4.6 that one member of the Greek openSUSE community was one of the speakers. After the presentation we went to a tavern along with people who use other distributions like Kubuntu and Gentoo and some others, at some point we all agreed that openSUSE is a polished desktop distribution(by polished I mean quality) also we all agreed that now-days openSUSE has an identity as a distribution and as a project. Now I only mention that because I was probably the only person there who was not a developer to a project and that strengthened my believe to the openSUSE Project even more. Of course I believe I don't have to say that I am saying all that friendly, you know that :-)
Stuart For netbooks you should try the KDE Plasma netbook (http://www.kde.org/workspaces/plasmanetbook/). I am using it for almost a month and I am really satisfied and impressed about its speed. Note that I used to have gnome and before that I had tested Ubuntu netbook remix 9.10 some time ago.
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