openSUSE FrontRunner Aims To Advance The Distro's Hardware Architecture Support

[tildearrow]

Raise your hand if you can make any sense of the above.

You missed the typo!

[Snaipersky]

Raise your hand if you can make any sense of the above.

Running platform-specific package sources through OBS to identify ways of making them work on other platforms. SLE&OSL are enterprise distros that run older kernels and packages, and Frontrunner should help identify what needs backporting/fixing.

[alcalde]

Raise your hand if you can make any sense of the above.

SUSE is destroying OpenSUSE a little bit more every day, and I can't believe the OpenSUSE community keeps letting it happen. Every day they're making more enterprise-speak changes that no one ever asked for or wanted while genuinely useful things (e.g. SUSE Studio) wither on the vine and disappear.

[alcalde]

...OSL are enterprise distros

Bite your tongue! Don't rub in the death of OpenSUSE.

[Snaipersky]

Bite your tongue! Don't rub in the death of OpenSUSE.

Slow your roll. Suse doesn't have a Shuttleworth to back every project under the sun. And why are you acting like either of the two big announcements are bad? OSL being fully compatible with SLE is great. That reduces cost for Suse, and if anyone needs to build & burn installs in dev or whatever, they don't need to worry about using SLE licenses.
Frontrunner is for helping to get the Chameleon on every platform. Porting Debian to a new architecture is almost like porting Doom, no matter it's flaws. From a technical standpoint, Opensuse would be a more robust distro to port, and with the management controls, would get new architectures to a "useful" state faster.