This is the picture which shows the openSUSE Users Group in the International Free Software Conference!
Gabriel Stein(I), Luana Coimbra and Vagner Farias.
And again: Thanks to Joe Brockmeier,Vagner Farias and Luana for all efforts.
Yesterday we had the Brazilian President visit. I gave a t-shirt and a DVD from openSUSE to him. I forgot my camera at house, but tomorow I will post pictures about Tchelinux barbecue.
Well.. I have some photos from International Free Software Conference in Brazil.
We have an openSUSE Users Group booth, with DVDs, T-Shirts and a lot of curious people about openSUSE.
Many Thanks to Vagner Farias from Novell and Joe Brockmeier for all effort to bring DVDs and T-Shirts.
openSUSE Rocks!
Last friday, holiday in Brazil and another countries(I think), I was lunch in a arabian restaurant with some friends and we spend a lot of time discussing opensource projects and opinions about.
We were talking about Fedora X openSUSE and I don’t waste my time discussing now about Fedora or openSUSE. But I have my own opinion about that, and its time to clarify:
- Is unacceptable a distribution which I have to fix some bug in the fresh install. In 2009, its only acceptable(IMHO) a distribution which you just have to setup network(if you don’t use DHCP) and video(because we need some strange drivers from nvidia or ati – but sometimes free drivers works well).
- Bug Report tools are for nerds. I can’t see normal users reporting bugs. Its a fail factor to linux: an automatic form with bug report and situation. Why not develop something with python or another programming language to collect information and send directly to distribution bug report tool, using the username and details of hardware?
- All distributions CAN use non-free drivers. Its a fact. I’m curious: You know EVERY license which you use in your OS? No, you really don’t know. Its your choose. A better distribution isn’t a “most free” distribution. If you think in that way, please, grow up. Its time to do that. Good distributions makes EVERYTHING which you need, without limitation.
- Patterns and planning are everything. I play with people when I talk about openSUSE. You can enter in a time machine in 1999 and then go to 2009. The main installation process continues using the same point, the same logic. Obvously, have a lot of improvements, but without loss of usability.
- A better distribution for me runs in all kind of devices. Into a Coffee Machine, Computer, Laptop, Tablet… and I have this kind of interoperability using openSUSE(I bought a n800 device, and I will install openSUSE on it, using SuSe Studio).
- I really like easier stuff. I’m a SuSe user since 1999. And I have everything working fine since that.
