Actually Dee, I think they need to get a bit snazzier as well. I mean they have a
chameleon as a mascot and it comes in one color GREEN. Go figure? This may sound
like a
trivial jab, but I believe it hits at a core lack of excitement is SuSE's marketing
image. I saw a good book today in the bookstore that went through the functions and
features of Star Office, the KDE, and many more Linux goodies. This book had a dist of
another Linux on the included CD. Yes, the SuSE book is likely the best technical
resource available with a Linux dist. The book I am taking about was full of
airbrushed
color pictures. It's glitzy. It will sell.
I like SuSE and I have the feeling that the folks on this list are above average in
their
focus and knowledge in comparison to other dist's mailing lists. I want to see SuSE
grow. I don't want one distribution to become the Microsoft of Linux.
I am beginning to formulate some ideas of how SuSE could make fundamental changes in
thins like YAST and really improve the value of this already find product. I was
thinking today that the folks at SuSE should step back and really challenge their
paradigm. Not because it is bad, but because I believe it could be much better.
I want to make it clear that I am not dissing SuSE. I find it much easier to work on
my
SuSE box than I do on my Solaris box. Things just tend to fall into place better. I
am
a few versions of Solaris behind, so that might not be a fair comparison.
Nonetheless, I
have accomplished an incredible amount on this box that I don't believe I would have
done
as easily on either NT (too "black box") or on Solaris (too arcane). I hope this is
taken in the sense of constructive criticism that I intend.
Steve
"W.D.McKinney" wrote:
> /biz/needs/linux/support/
>
> Greetings-
> As a connoisseur of Linux, I delight in using and promoting the SuSE distribution
> with all the amenities in applications and scripts, it is with joy that many users
> in the U.S.'s largest state have joined in this venture.
>
> Having said this, there remains a desparity between
> the two sites suse.de and suse.com in content, information and offerings.
> As an example, today is 3-21-99 in Anchorage, AK, and viewing the URL
> http://www.suse.com/index_us.html I see a total of 5 bulleted points of
> interest. None new in nature, unless you didn't know about 6.0 being released.
> Granted, http://www.suse.de/e/index.html has more, but you don't get sent to this
>page
> when you access the map at http://www.suse.com.
>
> Now on http://www.suse.de/ there are today, 18 bulleted points of interest
> with "new" tags as well on some. These tags range from a new beta release
> to new software updates.
>
> Now, I am employed as a professional in the data world, have vendors calling
> on us daily, as we have offerings ranging from ATM services to dry pairs,
> dialup Internet to OC3's, retail Long Distance to wholesale MTS and more. I visit
> conferences as often as time permits, and I do seek the vendor information
> necessary to make a critical judgement.
>
> Why should it be different using SuSE's web sites ? I will be marketing
> to users world wide and will be using someone's distribution, and a web
> site that has current info is going a long way to cutting down costs for
> our company and the vendor.
>
> Therefore, I entreat the folks in charge of the English site to
> help in working out a new push for quality in the English web site,
> consistent with the main thrust of SuSE.
>
> Best Regards
> -Dee
>
> cd /
>
>
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