Re: [opensuse] SUSE, openSUSE, GM, Retail, Eval, OSS and other naming conventions.

2005-10-10 Thread Martin Sommer
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Walt Frampus wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 05:36 +0200, houghi wrote: Oh, please do, because people already talk about wther they should use SUSE or openSUSE and they talk as if openSUSE is the distro, not just the comunity. And that is also how I personally feel

Re: [opensuse] SUSE, openSUSE, GM, Retail, Eval, OSS and other naming conventions.

2005-10-10 Thread Jan Karjalainen
On Monday 10 October 2005 09:54, Martin Sommer wrote: On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Walt Frampus wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 05:36 +0200, houghi wrote: Oh, please do, because people already talk about wther they should use SUSE or openSUSE and they talk as if openSUSE is the distro, not just

Re: [opensuse] SUSE, openSUSE, GM, Retail, Eval, OSS and other naming conventions.

2005-10-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday 10 Oct 2005 13:33 samaye Jan Karjalainen alekhiit: Maybe naming it LE, which could stand for Limited Edition or Light Edition? Ye Gods who make SUSE, note the support for my suggestion! See my post of 10-10-2005 13:29 UTC+0530 under the thread Eval version of Suse Linux 10.0.

[opensuse] SUSE, openSUSE, GM, Retail, Eval, OSS and other naming conventions.

2005-10-09 Thread Peter Flodin
I think the naming (in many areas) could have been done better by Novell and openSUSE. The last thing you want is to have people confused about your product. It is mostly due to inconsistent naming and usage, and it must be fixed for future releases. 1. Why introduce a release version of GM

Re: [opensuse] SUSE, openSUSE, GM, Retail, Eval, OSS and other naming conventions.

2005-10-09 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday 10 Oct 2005 08:11 samaye Peter Flodin alekhiit: 1. Why introduce a release version of GM when the roadmap calls it Final? IIRC nobody ever thought that GM is a release version. Gold Master is in the optical disc industry parlance the name of the final release version of a product.

Re: [opensuse] SUSE, openSUSE, GM, Retail, Eval, OSS and other naming conventions.

2005-10-09 Thread houghi
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:41:32PM +1000, Peter Flodin wrote: I think the naming (in many areas) could have been done better by Novell and openSUSE. Hear, hear !! The last thing you want is to have people confused about your product. It is mostly due to inconsistent naming and usage, and

Re: [opensuse] SUSE, openSUSE, GM, Retail, Eval, OSS and other naming conventions.

2005-10-09 Thread Walt Frampus
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 05:36 +0200, houghi wrote: Oh, please do, because people already talk about wther they should use SUSE or openSUSE and they talk as if openSUSE is the distro, not just the comunity. And that is also how I personally feel it. I am part of a comunity that drives the