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: > <snip> > > 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 > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org
