Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 15th Jun 2008 21:11 UTC
"Of all the community distributions, probably the least known is openSUSE. After two and a half years, the distro is not only still working out details about how its community operates - including how its governing board is elected - but also struggling to come out of the shadow of its corporate parent Novell, much as Fedora has emerged from its initial dominance by Red Hat. With the pending release of openSUSE 11.0, community manager Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier suggests that the distribution is finally starting to get the recognition it deserves. In the middle of preparations for the new release, Brockmeier took the time to talk with Linux.com about the priorities within the community and its relation with the larger world of free software."
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2006-09-19
Yes, Windows is on the desktop. Desktop, this dready places where people create Powerpoint slides and double-click mail attachments, among other things. This a different league. And I don't see how OpenSuse or any other distriution will ever be a major success on the desktop.
I see the server as the more promising market. I am running SLES on one of my servers for a customer. I never got the hang of it. Package availability is a joke, the whole system is a pain to maintain and to administrate in comparison with sane Linux distributions.
But fine, keep OpenSuse on the desktop. I can see that is offers some incentives there if you don't demand to much or are new to linux. No offence meant.