openSUSE conference is over ? some wrap up

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openSUSE conference is over ? some wrap up
24-Sep-2009 04:10

On Sunday the first openSUSE conference (osc09) finished in Nuernberg, Germany. Overall it was great success and brought people face to face together. Participants were motivated and enthusiastic and we’d like to just show some comments on twitter/blog: “Folks! I’m hoooome! #oSC09 was a blast! More details to come BryenY” “Back from the #opensuse conference #osc09, back [...]

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[oldcpu]

I wish I would have been able to attend (Nurenburg is not that far from Darmstadt) but I was on vacation 1/2 the way around the world at the time. I'm looking forward to viewing some of the videos when they come out.

In particular, I found this of interest:

RPM Summit

We had an RPM summit which Florian Festi (upstream RPM developer emplyoed by Red Hat) joined. Goal was to work on RPM itself to unify RPM usage between openSUSE and Fedora – the end goal is that a valid spec file for openSUSE or SLE is also valid for Fedora/Red Hat and vice versa.

One of my (many) pet peeves is although I like the great diversification in Linux (with many distributions and so much choice), unfortunately this also means signficant incompatibility internal to Linux between distributions. Anything we can do to reduce such incompatibilities is good, and if progress can be made on unifying RPM usage between openSUSE and Fedora, that could have significant benefit.

My view is there is tremendous wasted resources due to the duplication of effort of 3rd party Fedora packagers making application packages specific for Fedora, and 3rd party openSUSE packagers making packages of the same applications specific for openSUSE. If there could be more commonality, perhaps we could reduce the duplication and increase the number of packages avaliable for both distributions.

oldcpu wrote:
> If there could be more
> commonality, perhaps we could reduce the duplication and increase the
> number of packages avaliable for both distributions.

yep..it is kinda unfortunate that we in the 'community' have to suffer
because those who use our beta work to make money (and pay
shareholders) need to protect "their" way of doing stuff...

there is something wrong with this...huh?

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platinum

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by platinum

(and pay shareholders) need to protect "their" way of doing stuff...

If the companies are public, you can always roll the dice and buy shares.

> If the companies are public, you can always roll the dice and buy
> shares.


don't worry, i have bought and sold RHT & NOVL several times..

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platinum