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  • From: Arjan Bouter <a_bouter AT ezrs.com>
  • To: Jaanus Heeringson <jaanus AT heeringson.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Marketing SMGL: Competitors and differences? Helpneeded
  • Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:59:15 +0200

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Indeed we need to be carefull not to lose the identity Sourcemage has now
just by growing too big too fast.

At the moment we've got a caring community, no matter what experience level
you've got. Let's not change that.

I for example started using it after trying mandrake, redhat, slackware,
debian,
original sorcerer, then back to slackware.
Now all my desktop machines and laptop now run sourcemage.
And I'm in the middle of squeezing it onto an old IBM server:-)

For everything I wanted to know there was somebody on the IRC and mailing
lists
who could help me out.

In return I do "advertise" SMGL to everyone who wants to know,
just take a look at my signature, :-)

Regards,
Arjan

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Proud Source Mage GNU/Linux user,
Linux so advanced, it may as well be magic.
http://www.sourcemage.org

Registered as user #310617 with the Linux Counter,
http://counter.li.org.
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:12:09 +0200
Jaanus Heeringson <jaanus AT heeringson.com> wrote:

> Duane Malcolm wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just got this quote from irc...
> > "<ner0x> I have to say out of all tye types of linux I've tried, this
> > is the most helpful channel I've ever been in. All the other ones just
> > ignore you and let you repeat your question a million time. So thanks
> > everyone. :)"
>
> Perfect, we need a couple of actual quotes. This and others like it
> should go on the front page!
>
> > I also want to say the reason I tried sorcerer was because I wanted to
> > learn linux.
> >
> > Also I lost a potential sourcemage convert. He went to gentoo, I think
> > the reason is because he was attracted by the user-base, which I think
> > relates to his impression he'll get more help and support.
>
> Do we have any clue about the size of our userbase? Any download
> figures? Anything?
>
> > I'll confirm this. I ask a couple a gentoo users why they chose gentoo
> > over sourcemage. There choices were made before trying either
> > distributions. So clearly it doesn't matter how good your distribution
> > is but how good peoples impression of your distribution is.
>
> That is exactly the marketing 101. Impression. Unfotunetly the product
> don't need to be good, only look good to the consumers. Even I dispise
> selling crap by looks, and fortunetly this in not the case with SMGL.
> Sourcemage is good, and now we need to makit look so also. To be honest,
> If I didn't know SMGL in detail I probably also would choose Gentoo over it.
>
> I highly doubt that current potential users make an informed descition
> to choose Gentoo over SMGL, mainly because we give such a poor first
> impression compared to Gentoo (and a lot of other distros). What we need
> to do is create an acceptable first impression so that the potential
> user/developer gets some facts before they turn away. By allowing the
> user make an informed descition we stand to gain a lot.
>
> >
> > BTW, I do agree with the above quote and it'll be good if we get more
> > user and maintain the current type of community.
>
> That might also be a problem. A community changes when it grows. Any
> thoughts?
>
> --
> MVH
>
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