The openSUSE Board is calling for the formation of a working group to explore topics focused on project governance, operational models and rebranding for the project.
This follows a call on the openSUSE Project mailing list to formalize efforts, ideas and suggestions by community members in a centralized location.
I started my interest in Linux with SuSE 4.2. I left that because of Novell and the huge loss of features at that time, like all the simple useful things they stripped out of the distro package to become corporate copyright friendly. (Cd burner toast being an example) The last time I tried openSUSE was a disc of tumbleweed. It didn’t do it for me, ‘have a lot of fun’ didn’t ring true. I feel this can either be the end: it isn’t and hasn’t been ‘SuSE’ for many years. Or it could be a new distro that is better than it’s progenitor. (Like Mint is an anti-Ubuntu based on it.)
No dont rename openSUSE, lets not throw away the 20+ year old brand name, and new governance? Is SUSE dropping openSUSE? What are they doing?? Has maintaining a distro become too much of a hassle to them?
SUSE has requested that openSUSE rebrands. There’s not much the openSUSE project can do but comply.
@banazir WTF? Please stop this…
Stop what? I’m just sharing news from openSUSE, I have no involvement.
They might be complaining about constant updates to the thread, since they’re on Mastodon. It updates a little differently on that side and it might look like it’s all coming from you or something.
@banazir sorry 🙇 My complaint was about SUSE stopping this attempt to disassociate itself from the community. I explained myself poorly.
