Ask the OpenSUSE team!
On Tuesday 26th we’ll be heading over to Nuremburg to talk to Douglas DeMaio, a Senior Consultant for the OpenSUSE distro, along with a couple of developers. We have lots to talk about, but we also wanted to give you, our readers, the opportunity to put your questions forward as well. Let us know what you’d like us to ask the team in the comments below, or mail us!
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Hello,
i’d like to know if Tumbleweed is seen as stable from the openSUSE project viewpoint, and also if they can unfold how this is achieved.
Thank you
When are they going to get good, consistent font rendering in any release? Any new installation seems to require a lot of fiddling to get things looking good in all programs.
I would love to have a clone distro that have similar roles of what is centOS to RHEL.
Can I? can I?
I’d love to hear what the community is planning, or talking about, doing with the recently release SLE sources within OBS.
Will we be seeing a snappySUSE, or perhaps a SUSE-core cloud based container version of OpenSUSE anytime soon? Where does OpenSUSE see itself in the “cloud” arena in the next 10 years?
Any plans on making Nvidia proprietary graphics work easier in Tumbleweed?
Making media work well in other distros is very easy. simply click “install” on a popup asking if you want the proprietary stuff installed. on openSUSE it’s very difficult and a mess that requires adding Packman repos and specific libraries. are there any plans for openSUSE adding this as an option/popup on install?
The last time I used OpenSUSE (late last year) I had to have around 20 repositories enabled, without doing anything exotic with my system. This is madness. Can’t anything be done about it?
I’d love to hear of their perspective on openSUSE vs. Tumbleweed vs. SLE – on the os conference, it sounded a bit like as if Tumbleweed is going to be the “normal” distro for average joe while openSUSE might play a rôle more similar to what CentOS is for RHEL.
Similar to that: What does SUSE they makes them different to other distribution ecosystems? Especially RHEL+Fedora+Centos to me seems pretty similar to SLE+Tumbleweed+oS, but I assume they strongly disagree^^
@Philipp I’ve watched video from OSC15 last night and from what I understand Tumbleweed is dedicated to developers/advanced users while regular openSUSE is geared towards casual users.
If you want to compare openSUSE to other distributions I see it like this:
Tumbleweed -> Arch without maintenance hassle
openSUSE -> Ubuntu LTS (with potentially improved stability)
@Dawid that’s pretty much how I’d put it too, though I could go into much more detail answering Philipps question, hopefully they’ll ask me that question when I chat with them later