Using-gnome_as_enterprise_desktop
- 2. 2 Overview ¡ñ The story of SLED ¡ñ How do we choose a desktop ¡ñ What are we doing ¡ñ The strength of Linux desktop
- 3. 3 ¡ñ The story of SLED ¡ñ How do we choose a desktop ¡ñ What are we doing ¡ñ The strength of Linux desktop
- 4. 4 Linux Distributors ¡ñ Our?business? mode ¡ñ SLED?is?not?a? Desktop ¡ñ upstream We do not manufacture water, we just water porters.
- 5. 5 ¡ñ Founded in 1992, Germany ¡ñ Gorgeous KDE ¡ñ Acquired by Novell on 4 November 2003 ¡ñ Ximian, founded in 1999, provide international GNOME support ¡ñ Acquired by Novell on 4 August 2003 The story of SUSE & GNOME In previous SLED (9, 10, 11), we ship GNOME as the default desktop.
- 6. 6 What is the problem in SLED12? GNOME3 is..... controversial ¡ñ UI There was a time, no classic-mode ? ¡ñ 3D cool?for?end?user,?but?is?not?the?most?important?and? urgent?requirement Time to make decision, for the following, let's say, 7 years
- 7. 7 ¡ñ The history of SLED ¡ñ How do we choose a desktop ¡ñ What are we doing ¡ñ The strength of Linux desktop
- 8. 8 Target customer Enterprise user ¡ñ 'Small' market ¡ñ Behind the scenes ¡ñ Producer goods ¡ñ Paid users The?end?user ¡ñ Huge?market? ¡ñ Broad?reputation ¡ñ Consumer?goods ¡ñ Unpaid?users
- 9. 9 Requirement analysis Enterprise user ¡ñ Compatible ¡ñ Data migrate ¡ñ Solid quality The?end?user
- 10. 10 ¡ñ Solution one Pick other desktop environment XFCE, MATE... ¡ñ Solution two Make gnome3 looks like gnome2? I could be customized to any shape. ¡ª¡ª voice from gnome-shell We?want?something?like?gnome2 ???????????????????????????¡ª¡ª?voice?from??customers
- 11. 11 ¡ñ The overall market of desktop is decline. Tablet/mobile ¡ñ Gnome3 could be used in touch screen. ¡ñ Gtk3 More?than?gnome2?
- 12. 12 ¡ñ LLVM-Pipe software acceleration ¡ñ But for the server which do not like 3D at all ¨C light desktop, icewm/twm 3D The?old?story?of?3D? The?different?attitudes?? between?upstream??and? some?developers: Pass?the?ball?forward?
- 13. 13 ¡ñ Mature Live for years, wildly used, good brand. Fragment desktop is interesting, but not competitive. ¡ñ Active Code commit, bug report ¡ñ Upstream Not only a couple of people Not drive by a certain company Why?GNOME3:?What?is?a?good?open?source?project GitStats: Gnome-shell
- 14. 14 Do we make a right decision? We always hear complains. Once we made a decision, that is the best decision! The era of big data An open source project maturity analyzing framework?
- 15. 15 Maturity analyzing framework ¡ñ Papers ¡ñ Current framework ¡ñ For developer Recognition of their work ¡ñ For upstream Care about their weakness ¡ñ For distributor Find the best project
- 16. 16 ¡ñ The history of SLED ¡ñ How do we choose a desktop ¡ñ What are we doing ¡ñ The strength of Linux desktop
- 17. 17 What should we do ¡ñ Focus on core libs - authentication, network protocols, - X What should we not do ¡ñ Do not provide tools like 'app store' ¨C different approach with Canonical - we can, but not really necessary? Different?attitude?with?community
- 18. 18 ¡ñ Hardware enablement ¡ñ Solution with complicate environment ¡ñ Features from customers ¡ñ Bugs from anywhere Daily?works Submit?our?fix? to?the?upstream Contribute?to?upstream. Upstream?is?the?only? standard?to?confirm?we? did?the?right?work.
- 19. 19 ¡ñ Patience is more important than passion ¡ñ Work is done by patch, not by speech. Be?patience
- 20. 20 SLED team's objectives ¡ñ Improve our desktop ¡ñ Integrate applications to our desktop ¡ñ Evaluate different desktops ¡ñ Evaluate different applications What is more Help local community ¨C welcome to join our training or hackweek project!
- 21. 21 ¡ñ The history of SLED ¡ñ How do we choose a desktop ¡ñ What are we doing ¡ñ The strength of Linux desktop