Re: 10.1 RC1 : install by internet

In alt.os.linux.suse, on Thu 20 April 2006 23:42, houghi
<houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Robert Hull wrote:
The naming in version 10.0 was confusing to a few people - especially
those who (as earlier in this thread) wanted to invent their own
names for what was on offer. Those of us who accept that the producer
of the software has the right to choose what it will be called were
less confused.

Many people, among myself, disagree with you. The naming was confusing
and would be confusing since the beginning.

IMNSHO, the main confusing thing was calling the non-OSS "Evaluation"

The fact that the producer
is allowed to name it whatever does not make it less confusing.

It does stop you from saying "I disagree with their naming system,
therefore I will look for "SUSE Linux OSS, Released, 10.0, *OSS*, DVD,
Download" and declare myself confused when I don't find it.

Instead, accepting that SUSE have the right to call something what they
want leads logical people to look at what is on offer and attempt to
locate the product that most closely meets their desire. They can still
be confused by the word "Evaluation" in the name of an offering that
has none of the traditional attributes of Evaluation Software, but they
will not be as confused as someone who says to him/herself "SUSE do not
have the right to call their DVD 'Evaluation' so I will tell the world
that it is confusing not to have two different DVD offerings named
according to MY definition"


This was discussed during 10.0 Alpha already. In the beginning I also
thought there was a SUSE and an openSUSE version.

Each to his own. But did you add to the confusion by Berating SUSE
publicly because they had *not* called the SUSE Linux OSS version
OpenSUSE, or did you learn that what you had thought might have been
called OpenSUSE was actually called "SUSE Linux OSS". If the latter,
how did that serve to prolong/increase your confusion?

Even SUSE people are sometimes still talking about openSUSE as a
distro, instead of SUSE OSS or SUSE.

Using a shorthand reference to a product that is otherwise named is
common practice and does not necessarily represent either confusion or
cluelessness.

Now if their own developers have no clue, I would say that it is
confusing.

The leap from "SUSE people are sometimes still talking about openSUSE"
to "their own developers have no clue" is greater than trying to leap
from Niagara Falls to the far side of the Grand Canyon.
--
Robert HULL

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