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Fixing the Linux PR Problem
zonker.opensuse.org — Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier, openSUSE's Community Manager, on what the Linux and openSUSE community can do to help the marketing and public relations of Linux.
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- spikeb, on 02/14/2008, -1/+1novell/suse should stay as far away from linux PR as possible - we have issues with them.
- Waterrat, on 02/14/2008, -1/+1The same issues we have with 'spire and X'.
- SnowCrashv5, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1I don't think Novell made a good decision with Microsoft, no doubt. I don't think Xandros did or Linspire either. But the way i look at it is Ubuntu is too unstable, Fedora lags behind in some areas. Suse is a top notch distro. It's slick, polished, 10.3 alleviated some of my complaints about boot time and sluggishness of yast. It's still an odd distro in some regards in how they approach things, but overall it's my favorite distro and i hate to admit that now. People complain about Suse being a 'mixed' source distro b/c of the number of proprietary stuff that comes with it (java even before it was open sources, mp3 ability, flash, etc..) but these are the first things i install on any distro anyways.
The Linux world is just going to have to own up and learn to pick it's battles. There's proprietary 'standards' out there the world has to adapt to for the time being. That doesn't mean fight the good fight for open source, real standardization and open protocols and file formats, but we live in a world dominated by mp3s, microsoft office, nvidia and ati drivers and until suitable open source alternatives (or until the makers of the formats/drivers and such see the light) we're going to have to compromise if we ever want linux itself to gain momentum on the desktop.
I'm far more in the Stallman camp than the Novell one, but i'm a realist who puts his idealism in the priority needed.
Now that I'm passed that, this has nothing to do with the article at hand. The guy is simply giving tips for promoting linux. These steps can be used for any distro, Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Debian, you name it. He makes some decent points.
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