Just want to bring up to your attention a new site focused on openSUSE; OMG! SUSE!](http://omgsuse.com/).
I have seen some great information and threads going into the OMG! Ubuntu! site, a sister site, and hope to see OMG! SUSE! gain some traction as well.
Not only will it be helpful in getting the word out about SUSE and openSUSE, but a fun way to pass out tips, tricks and improvements to fellow SUSE-ers.
So, check it out, submit, read and expand it! It is a great opportunity.
(just FYI, I have no association with the site and get no benefits from marketing it other than the chance to find some cool tips and clarity about openSUSE)
I about halfway expected to get rick rolled. rotfl! I’ve seen people make fun of the OMG name. I think this is a good idea. There is not enough centralized communication for openSUSE.
Not as much as they used to, but I’m still gun shy. I don’t want to say openSUSE needs to copy Ubuntu, but this type of exposure is good. openSUSE is an awesome distro, but seems boring and stale behind the scenes compared to other popular linux communities. I’m hoping things like this, the new mission statement, and the new wiki will help us grow. IMHO openSUSE needs more of the “user” image.
are all of those ‘bad’ words to everyone looking for a operating
system to get work done on??
if not work, just to write granny a word processed note on, or send
uncle a email without worrying about gettin’ busted up by a virus, or
maybe do some online banking without fear of feeding a key logger?
want exciting? and a need to always be on your toes? then, use the
most popular OS on earth…
want anti-stale? use the second most popular on earth…
want better, for a lot less money–pick any Linux…lots to choose
from from…they run stable to exciting…
It is if you are trying to market things, or anything media-related.
Even Red Hat is “exciting” because it introduces new technologies or tweaks to push stability, security and easier administration ahead.
If there is nothing talk-worthy, then nobody will talk about it.
How much talk is interesting on exclaiming the virtues of old-fashioned (non-smart…) phones? Not many (if any) because nobody really cares, and most people write things to be read.
I’m not knocking openSUSE. I’m setting up 11.3 as I write this. I have made it my home after moving from Kubuntu with 10.3. The OS is awesome. My point was more about the new “fresh” image the community is trying to get pushed out with the new wiki, and trying to get new people to get involved and contribute. The community is trying to revamp their image, not the OS. “Out of sight, out of mind” is what I think about when I look at the majority of linux news sites. If you have 10 how to’s, 6 will be for Ubuntu, and the other 4 just general. If we have a couple of OMG! type sites to promote it from a regular users perspective, and gets picked up by sites like tuxmachines for example, it will greatly help with this goal.
Yeah, I’ve noticed the number of Ubuntu sites, with Fedora coming in second. I almost never see an openSUSE one so part of my is trying to figure out how openSUSE does things. This often leads me to the openSUSE Build Service](https://build.opensuse.org/), which I am still trying to fully understand, and see how to get involved.
Hi
Don’t forget SuSE Studio, roll your own version of openSUSE… You
can link to packages from the build service, upload your own rpms etc
you can even link to other third party repositories (I’ll leave you to
think about which one )
I don’t have the bandwidth to do any packaging or I would love to help,(satellite connection with bandwidth limit) but it is like Ubuntu’s PPA’s. The big difference is they provide packages for almost all of the major distros. The new build service portal has some really nice links to help get started. Portal:Build Service - openSUSE
67GTA wrote:
> If we have a couple of OMG! type sites to promote it from a regular
> users perspective, and gets picked up by sites like tuxmachines for
> example, it will greatly help with this goal.
so start a couple…
if that is the way you want to contribute to the openSUSE Community,
you are welcome to get going!!
I think he is interested in why the OP throws in these things, most possibly unknown to the audience here, just to leave it to them to go searching for it on the web. Either you want to discuss something in a serious way and thus explain as eleborate as possible what you mean, or you are just teasing. For me it is the same as somewone saying in a help thread: “in my former live as a Windows user a used tool XYZ, what is the openSUSE quivalent tool?” When there is not the slightest hint what XYZ is meant to do, I quit on such a thread. It is to the OP to make a consistent and understandable question/statement.
When the OP explains short and clear what it is and how it functions, all here may hae an idea. That is more efficient then that all reading his post have to grab for Google/Wikipedia, all looking up the same. (This argument becomes of course nill when he expects only one person to be interested in his thread).
perfectly said Henk…i have no desire whatsoever to research what
every bit of software or web based rresource used on all (or any)
other systems just to help someone who has demonstrated an
unwillingness to (in this case) READ about the openSUSE Build Services
to answer their own question!
Nice, but I do not know what PPA is. But do not tell me to look it up, I am not interested.
(don’t be to upset, I do know what Ubuntu is, in theory, i never used it.)
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