Le jeudi 30 septembre 2010 13:21:04, Graham Lauder a écrit : > Our principle competitor, MS competes against the Linux universe as a whole > but other distros compete for the MS user base aimed at particular > Demographics. For instance: > OpenSUSE aims at the "Power User" Market > Ubuntu aims at the young individual end of the market > CentOS at Community enterprise and Not For Profits > Fedora at the Computing Professional > > Mageia could therefore aim at the Young Married professional market, being > the > Distro that could be installed on the home computer and geared so that the > whole family could use it.
I don't know whether I agree or not, but I would like to point out that to me Mandriva is/was et Mageia will/could be a generalist distribution. Which means : - suitable for power users (if one can count me in this category, Mandriva is my desktop of choice) - suitable for your individuals (My young brother uses Mandriva Linux) - suitable for community enterprise and for professionnal actors (We've got more than 400 Mandriva Free servers in production in french hospitals, and several workstations here) I know there is a difference between saying that the distro is "suitable" for something and its marketing targeting , but I still remember people telling me "Mandriva is a distro for newbies, not for power users or businesses". I want to avoid this at all prices. If I were to choose right now, I would say : advertise Mageia as a generalist distro suitable for many needs just like Mandriva is/was, and then have specific compaigns to highlight some specific usages : in educationnal fields, server usage, workstation usage, etc. Regards Samuel Verschelde _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list Mageia-dev@mageia.org https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
