I love the smiling chameleon (I always thought of it as a female chameleon named “Susie”, this is before I learned the actual pronunciation), I hope they don’t replace it with some lame reblanding.
Well, there's already a discussion on the mailing lists, and while I can't speak for the project, (nor am I an attorney, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night), the "Main" openSUSE Project logo is a registered trademark of SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, so it's highly unlikely that it's going to change.
Don't really like any of the TW winners personally and two of the suggestions plus the kalpa winner are all ones that were part of a broader theme that didn't get picked up by the other logos. The goal was to create something that is consistent across the board, but he results kinda point in a different direction.
I do like the Slowroll winner and the leap winner is a safe choice, too if course.
I also like LCP winner for the main logo and am generally in favour of a new logo. But all of the three other too contenders are basically just retreads of the OG logo, which can probably be read as no real desire by the broader community for a change.
Well, I can say, with all certainty, that while I appreciate the submissions, and the community making themselves heard, that isn't the new Kalpa logo.
I’m a Debian user but I’ve been eyeing Tumbleweed though I’m a bit hesitant around bleeding edge rolling release models (not very shocking considering that I use Debian). Slowroll looks like exactly the kind of thing I’m wanting out of a desktop OS, I’ve thrown it onto a VM for now to mess around with it and will be watching news around it.
If Slowroll gets some traction/sticks around it might be what makes me switch, at least on first impressions it seems very promising.
I certainly don't care what distribution you use, but Tumbleweed, aside from the occasional glitch on single updates, is stable as hell, and has been for a long time. It's hardly "bleeding edge" and on Par with Fedora, for instance, as far as stability is concerned. I'd say a bit more stable than the Arch derivatives, due to openQA.
Its not perfect by any means, but no distribution is.
I agree its not perfect, but the funny thing is i was using Tumbleweed for years when my debian server was acting funny after installing a seperate SSD, thus i installed Leap on it, worked like a charm ever since. Servers at work, running ubuntu, had snap interfering with our software after an upgrade and again runnning Leap on them not only solved our snap problem but also fixed some issues we had with old software in ubuntu. Though i do had handfull of problems with NVIDIA being slow to update their drivers after each kernel update in TW, but i replaced that old thing with a Radeon anyways and hat no problems with TW on my PC since.
Short Answer? Because most of the current Leap userbase and maintainers aren't interested in an immutable Leap replacement. And in openSUSE, the people that are willing to put in the work, are the ones that make the decisions, ultimately.
No. While SUSE the corporation supports, and does have some limited input into the community project, openSUSE Tumbleweed is fully community developed and controlled (I don't believe there is anybody on the SUSE payroll who's job description is working on openSUSE, the SUSE Employees contributions to openSUSE are at their own discretion and interest). openSUSE Leap is also a fully community supported and developed point release distribution, that is based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise sources.
openSUSE Tumbleweed -> SUSE Linux -> openSUSE Leap
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