OSCON: openSUSE's Eleventh Hour
Aside from having one of the niftier names in the industry, Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier has a pretty nifty job, too: He's the openSUSE Community Manager at Novell, where he oversees the folks that help make what will ultimately turn into the next version of SUSE Linux Enterprise. I grabbed a few minutes of his time to follow up on things I'd talked to him about back at the Red Hat Summit.
"The uptake for openSUSE 11 has been pretty good. Obviously, being open source, we don't have perfect numbers to determine who's updating. When we first released 11, though, we saw huge 20 MBps traffic through Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM) (which we had to use for the first couple of days), versus something like 12 MBps for 10.3. And obviously we saw a lot of positive reviews, too. Generally feedback has been very good -- a few people have discovered that KDE 4.0 is still rough, but we were up-front about that fact and included KDE 3.5 as a fallback."
That led into some discussions about KDE's mistake in labeling 4.0 as a 4.0 release and not as a beta or a release candidate.
"I think the KDE project was very candid about the capabilities of KDE 4.0, but the naming was a bit of a boo-boo. Quite frankly -- yes, I don't think people read the rationale; they saw the 4.0 and assumed from there everything was solid."
What's behind openSUSE's strong KDE following?
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