Comments on: OpenSUSE 11.0: The ‘Vista’ of SUSE?

By: The 11th plague of Egypt

The 11th plague of Egypt — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:01:41 +0000

Well, I’d rather say that Suse is the Vista of Linux

Same propaganda, same trolls…

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:16:58 +0000

I am not trying to be crude. Just remember that Novell is after money; OpenSUSE is about Free software, so you guys should be careful.

By: kotorsis

kotorsis — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:13:12 +0000

Bashing of a community distribution makes you look bad, not the distro. Especially as you are so obviously _trying_ too hard… Give it up already; most reviewers loved the 11.0 release, many thought it an improvement, only very few didn’t like it.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:09:56 +0000

RyanT, I’ll be more careful when using the word “review” in the future. I’m just not so sure what to call it otherwise (“experience”, “test”).

By: RyanT

RyanT — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:57:25 +0000

Xanadu, a review implies going through a rigorous process of weighing up the pros and cons, thinking about your audience, in these cases thinking about things in context rather than random statements based on one personal blog, and trying to give as fair and balanced view as you can for the consumer.

Include the fact there’s some very unbalanced assumptions based purely on one set of hardware, rather than a good range of hardware to properly try out how good its support is overall isn’t a very good sign. I could just as easily say wireless support is the best ever, considering it now works with broadcom based cards (like my own) “out of the box” (I’ve tried the LiveCD), but I realise there is a range of hardware that can be difficult or isn’t supported at all sometimes, but then broadcom cards have been known for how tricky they are, no thanks to broadcom themselves.

By: Xanadu

Xanadu — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:52:26 +0000

Yeah, a positive opinion for openSUSE is a good review, otherwise please consider it just a personal opinion.

By: AlbertoP

AlbertoP — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:17:31 +0000

Maybe you could provide some data to support your statements.
Here you can read some data that support exactly the opposite of what you’re trying to say:

http://news.opensuse.org/2008/06/24/numbers/

About “bad reviews”, it would be better to call them personal opinions, because a review should apply some sort of scientific method to compare one distribution to another and to give a judgement, not just telling the personal and limited experience someone had on his system.

Btw, where did you read someone working for openSUSE say openSUSE had bad review? Please, provide a reference.

Thanks