Whatever happened to openSuSE: THE distro for KDE?? I think this is how oS was best known for during the KDE 3.5 => KDE 4.0 transition. Is that advantage/reputation just gone?
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 19:35 +0000, polycarp wrote:
> Whatever happened to openSuSE: THE distro for KDE?? I think this is how
> oS was best known for during the KDE 3.5 => KDE 4.0 transition. Is that
> advantage/reputation just gone?
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Not sure… I just read a review this week of SLED and it talked much
about openSUSE as THE distro for KDE… and I think I read another new
article this week saying the same thing.
Seems the reputation is intact (?)
polycarp wrote:
> Whatever happened to openSuSE: THE distro for KDE?? I think this is how
> oS was best known for during the KDE 3.5 => KDE 4.0 transition. Is that
> advantage/reputation just gone?
have you read somewhere that it is gone?
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Gone? No.
There is a lot of talk right now @openSUSE that seems to be about identity and niche, but I haven’t seen any mention of “the KDE Distro” niche… maybe I haven’t been paying close enough attention. Definitely a possibility.
I have to admit that the first statement initially seemed purely provocative to me, but it’s an interesting point about openSUSE’s identity.
Yes, I also read a review on 11.3 (RC2, IIRC) this week, that much preferred openSUSE as the KDE distro.
polycarp wrote:
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> Gone? No.
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> There is a lot of talk right now @openSUSE that seems to be about
> identity and niche, but I haven’t seen any mention of “the KDE Distro”
> niche… maybe I haven’t been paying close enough attention.
> Definitely a possibility.
It was mentioned more than once. I think maybe by Martin Schlander.
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No I don’t think the reputation is gone. It has been muted some, but it is still there. Ars Technica uses openSUSE as its reference platform for KDE when doing reviews of distros or KDE itself.
I think some of the muting is that there has been some effort to let people know that openSUSE has a unique, well done implementation of GNOME. Although I think we will receive a growing chorus of complaints that SLAB pales next to the Mint Menu - they look similar but the latter is much more capable than the former.
I’m not sure if the ‘default desktop’ dustup improved or damaged openSUSE’s reputation as The KDE distro.