Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-15 Thread James Mason
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 13:23 +0100, jdd wrote: Le 11/02/2011 12:27, Manu Gupta a écrit : openSUSE is a universal operating system (can everybody find another expression for that, it looks really like Debian.) warning: Debian build for almost any hardware platform, we don't.

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-15 Thread James Mason
On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 00:59 +0530, Manu Gupta wrote: Hi all, What does openSUSE focus on 1. Do we focus on Desktop? Yes 2. Do we focus on Servers? Yes 3. We say we focus on balance,but what does that actually mean? It means that openSUSE is the *only* complete, well-rounded

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-15 Thread Ricardo Chung
On Martes, 15 de Febrero de 2011 20:12:27 Bryen M. Yunashko escribió: James, you truly rock with your dead-on responses below. Its going to be great having you join us at the hackfest. These are excellent talking points and should definitely be incorporated into

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-15 Thread jdd
Le 15/02/2011 20:10, James Mason a écrit : openSUSE is extremely flexible, and hides the inherent complexity of that under a layer of well-engineered tools (esp. YaST). Our installer provides not just one-click options to choose desktop, but also one-click software patterns for LAMP stack,

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-15 Thread jdd
Le 15/02/2011 19:56, James Mason a écrit : Umm... openSUSE builds for ppc arm as well. Also, SLES runs ~85% of IBM S390 mainframes... Debina is downloadable for: * amd64 * armel * kfreebsd-i386 * kfreebsd-amd64 * i386 * ia64 * mips * mipsel * powerpc

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-12 Thread Rajko M.
I wasn't really happy with identities that were proposed during discussions about strategy. Status of that discussion tells me that no one else was either. On Friday, February 11, 2011 05:33:42 am Helen wrote: But the 'anything, everything' idea - openSUSE is whatever you do with it could

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-12 Thread jdd
Le 12/02/2011 20:04, Rajko M. a écrit : If we want to stick with green then chameleon is not for us. we can use mostly gren and go around from there, like patchwork http://www.hancocks-paducah.com/ProductImages/Thumbnails/K10840163.jpg

[opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-12 Thread Helen South
If we want to stick with green then chameleon is not for us. we can use mostly gren and go around from there, like patchwork this one is nice: http://photos-des-iles.net/la-reunion/images/cameleon-vert.jpg this one is specially cute :-) http://www.etsy.com/listing/28866167/crazy-chameleon

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-12 Thread Neel Kamal Kalita
Yep, it's a good thought. we need to establish ourselves in Desktop as well as good server section. On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Manu Gupta manugu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, What does openSUSE focus on 1. Do we focus on Desktop? 2. Do we focus on Servers? 3. We say we focus on

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-11 Thread Kim Leyendecker
Am 10.02.2011 20:26, schrieb Bruno Friedmann: Sorry Kim , 85% of the openSUSE boxes I maintain around are server. So openSUSE is SERVER ! openSUSE is whatever you do with it. Don't insist too much on the desktop, that feature is just a convience to have multiple console in one screen:-) 85%,

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-11 Thread jdd
Le 11/02/2011 12:14, Kim Leyendecker a écrit : openSUSE is for desktops _and_ servers? that's right, you can add than the ncurse (semi-graphic) yast interface makes it extremely friendly to setup the server jdd -- http://www.dodin.net

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-11 Thread Helen
openSUSE is whatever you do with it. For the identity again: We´re a large and healthy community, that develops _and_ supports a linux distribution called openSUSE. You can use our universal distro for your desktop-PC, your Server, your tablet what ever you want. openSUSE is a

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-11 Thread Manu Gupta
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 12:14 +0100, Kim Leyendecker wrote: Am 10.02.2011 20:26, schrieb Bruno Friedmann: Sorry Kim , 85% of the openSUSE boxes I maintain around are server. So openSUSE is SERVER ! openSUSE is whatever you do with it. Don't insist too much on the desktop, that feature is

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-11 Thread jdd
Le 11/02/2011 12:27, Manu Gupta a écrit : openSUSE is a universal operating system (can everybody find another expression for that, it looks really like Debian.) warning: Debian build for almost any hardware platform, we don't. openSUSE is nearly universal for PC (that is intel or amd)

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-11 Thread jdd
Le 11/02/2011 12:33, Helen a écrit : But the 'anything, everything' idea - openSUSE is whatever you do with it could work too. it was pretty strongly refused on the project goal discussion (openSUSE is for power user was the motto then, not for dummies) not to say I don't like ,it :-) jdd

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-11 Thread Kim Leyendecker
Am 11.02.2011 13:23, schrieb jdd: Le 11/02/2011 12:27, Manu Gupta a écrit : openSUSE is a universal operating system (can everybody find another expression for that, it looks really like Debian.) warning: Debian build for almost any hardware platform, we don't. openSUSE is nearly

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-11 Thread Bruno Friedmann
On 02/11/2011 01:39 PM, Kim Leyendecker wrote: Am 11.02.2011 13:23, schrieb jdd: Le 11/02/2011 12:27, Manu Gupta a écrit : openSUSE is a universal operating system (can everybody find another expression for that, it looks really like Debian.) warning: Debian build for almost any

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-11 Thread Ricardo Chung
On Friday, February 11, 2011 06:33:42 AM Helen wrote: openSUSE is whatever you do with it. For the identity again: We´re a large and healthy community, that develops _and_ supports a linux distribution called openSUSE. You can use our universal distro for your desktop-PC, your

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-11 Thread Helen
But the 'anything, everything' idea - openSUSE is whatever you do with it could work too. it was pretty strongly refused on the project goal discussion (openSUSE is for power user was the motto then, not for dummies) not to say I don't like ,it :-) jdd By 'anything, everything' I

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-10 Thread Kim Leyendecker
Am 10.02.2011 01:07, schrieb Stuart Tanner: Thank you to the community you inspire me to great things every single day!! I have to say thank you too to the community, by the way. Don't forget that SLES is openSUSE just with older software for stability. Yes, it´s openSUSE 11.1 right, but

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-10 Thread Bruno Friedmann
On 02/10/2011 07:35 PM, Kim Leyendecker wrote: Am 10.02.2011 01:07, schrieb Stuart Tanner: Thank you to the community you inspire me to great things every single day!! I have to say thank you too to the community, by the way. Don't forget that SLES is openSUSE just with older software for

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-10 Thread Bryen M. Yunashko
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 19:35 +0100, Kim Leyendecker wrote: Am 10.02.2011 01:07, schrieb Stuart Tanner: Thank you to the community you inspire me to great things every single day!! I have to say thank you too to the community, by the way. Don't forget that SLES is openSUSE just with older

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-10 Thread jdd
Le 10/02/2011 19:46, Bryen M. Yunashko a écrit : And that works for your particular market that you work with. Beauty of openSUSE. We can market it as a desktop and we can market it as a server. Plenty of people do market it as a server.Let's just be careful not to say that openSUSE is

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-09 Thread Kim Leyendecker
For me, openSUSE is a desktop-distro. I often introduces it as the perfect desktop for you But we´re not just into the desktop-market. I installed openSUSE 11.3 as a server, and with Tumblweed + Evergreen we have two projects, that gives us the chance, to be on some different markets. I think,

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-09 Thread Stuart Tanner
Kim But if our Enterprise cousins can run SUSE on Jaguar Cray's then its obviously perfect for Servers also, but it depends if we are just talking about openSUSE or including into the identity the commercial versions. I only found out yesterday that SUSE is running on WySE Terminals something

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-09 Thread Helen
n Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Stuart Tanner stu...@bolin.org.uk wrote: Kim I have inspired quite a number of people in uni this week to build their final year bachelor projects around openSUSE Linux running on Beowulf Clusters and connecting in with openSUSE / LXDE / kiwi-ltsp to replicate

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-08 Thread stuart
my BlackBerry® smartphone -Original Message- From: Manu Gupta manugu...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:59:25 To: Marketing-opensuseopensuse-marketing@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity? Hi all, What does openSUSE focus on 1. Do we focus on Desktop? 2. Do