Comments

• Michael

  2011-11-30 03:45:29

  LOL! "People who speak about DistroWatch rankings for OpenSUSE conceal the fact that the recent release provides a temporary boost." Funny. You pretend to not respond to me but who else is this targeting?
  
  In any case, of course a recent release gives a boost to rankings. Nobody suggested otherwise... well, other than *you* who claimed that the new release was being pretty much ignored!
  
  But let us say it was not popular. You are tying an OSs popularity with its value to its users... which is a massive self-nuke against your position that desktop Linux, itself, is on par or better than the competition.
  
  Now you are tying popularity to value... which, if you are to be consistent, means you think desktop Linux is of almost no value.
  
  Just amazing.

• mcinsand

  2011-11-30 17:14:09

  The saddest thing about this is that the OpenSUSE camp just could not escape the taint of the Novell sponsor. They tried to reassure the users that they would remain truly open, but Novell's sellout still put the distribution under a dark cloud. Given the choice between a distribution with a sponsor committed to rebuking patent deals veruss a traitor, where will the developers and users go? When I first woke up to make the switch, 7 years ago, SUSE and OpenSUSE were very highly respected, although I preferred Fedora. It's interesting to look at those two sponsors. Redhat is growing and has a healthy balance sheet. Redhat told MS to take a hike, rather than endorse lies for a cheap cash infusion. By contrast, how is Novell doing?

• Michael

  2011-11-30 17:24:22

  Personally, I am for choice. I do not understand Roy's anti-choice stance. What is he so afraid of?