[Zami2]

Hi,

I think the idea of an OpenSUSE LTS version should not be discarded just like that. There are other community distributions like Ubuntu and Linux Mint who are offering LTS versions, so why should we not even think about it?

In my opinion an LTS version would be a good alternative for small businesses who cannot afford SLES yet. Keep in mind this might change when they grow larger over time. Also there are private ( esp. "average joe") users who would like to have their os supported for a long period of time. It would certainly be a good thing for everybody involved in the SUSE brand (that includes Novell) to try to keep this people and companies SUSE users.

Please note that the longer an operating system is supported, updated and fixed, the more stable and complete it will become. I don't know about you, but 11 and 11.1 have not been very stable on my systems, sometimes it felt really buggy. A stronger focus on stability could be just the right thing for our distro right now.

So to me, the question is not if we should create an LTS OpenSUSE, but if we can. Do we have the human ressources, is the community active and big enough? I don't know, but if so, I think we should start working on it.

An alternative would perhaps be a SUSE equivalent to CentOS, which has been talked about many times in recent years but sadly never seriosly worked on, at least not to my knowledge.

Thanks for reading.