-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Schlander wrote:
Den Tuesday 01 May 2007 19:54:36 skrev jdd sur free:
Martin Schlander wrote:
Steinman came up with this brilliant idea:
openSUSE - Not for my mom, but for tech enthusiasts wrong, I just make a 10.2 computer for my (87 old) mom :-))
Are you saying Justin Steinman could be wrong?
Martin, it should be: "openSUSE - not for Justin Steinman's mom, but for anyone else"
Obviously openSUSE is much less stable than Ubuntu non-LTS releases, and also much more difficult to use. At least I can't interpret his comments otherwise.
He said more or less the same thing on the Linux Action Show 6 months ago. openSUSE is only for enthusiasts, hobbyists, home developers etc., regular people can't use it. http://www.linuxactionshow.com/?p=64
With friends like these who needs enemies ;-)
Right. "keep your friends close, keep your enemies in the gutter".. wasn't it ?
I think we need one of two things: 1) An explanation, or; 2) Some marting coordination
openSUSE.org says we're working to make "the world's most usable Linux", and everytime Novell marketers (Justin Steinman and previously Ted Haeger) open their mouthes they say "it's bleeding edge for geeks only". I think we have the right to be confused. And I think this is a serious issue that needs to be addressed.
<justkidding>
Ted left, one to go.
</justkidding>
No, seriously, it shows the disconnect between the people working on
(open)SUSE and its community on one hand, and Novell on the other side
of the Atlantic (before starting an endless off-topic thread [1] about
earth maps, I mean the US).
But there seems to be hope, as at least some ex-Ximian folks have
started to use openSUSE as their distribution (always wondered what they
were using) -- amongst other things, it made them notice the sorry state
of GNOME on openSUSE, as compared to KDE (I said "made": now there's
[2]). Although a lot of credit goes to James Ogley for pushing those
repositories out of the ground.
Anyhow, Justin's words are disrespectful at best. Even Red Hat managers
and advocates-alike wouldn't drop a statement like that.
[1] right, this is opensuse-project, not opensuse@opensuse.org ;)
[2] http://software.opensuse.org/download/GNOME:/
cheers
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