OpenSUSE 13.1 Released and Reviewed

sfcrazy writes "The openSUSE team just announced the release of openSUSE 13.1. There are some core points which set openSUSE apart from the popular Ubuntu distro. While Ubuntu has become a more or less Canonical-owned project, openSUSE is becoming more and more community-driven. Looking at the recent controversies around Ubuntu and their move toward mobile platforms, openSUSE seems to be a great option for desktop users."

Comments

Sad. Very sad. We OpenSUSE has major issues. RPM.

[Anonymous Coward]

Needing to go to random repositories sucks. It makes users less safe and until distributions understand the threat of non-free software they're going to continue to suck. From a privacy stand point as well as a vulnerability standpoint (and I'm not talking security here- I'm talking vulnerability to players like Adobe, Oracle, and Microsoft, who drop support, etc).

We also need to consider that free software isn't free. Its dependent on user contributions. And not just developers. We need users to make larger contributions and become financially supporting members thereof. $250 every few years to Microsoft for anti-virus software, OS software, and office software means nothing. To the majority of truly free software projects it means everything. Right now there are many projects at risk because of the lack of financial contributions by users.

We need to ignore the users who say “don't bother me with money requests on the download page/advertising/etc”. While we don't want to overdo or mislead (as Canonical probably has done) every project should make it unavoidably clear a financial contribution is needed each and every time the software is obtained and just how much. A small project might need $100 whereas a large project (say Debian) may need nothing. However where that large project is at the forefront (distributions) they have an obligation to request money on behalf of the developers whose software they include.

Re:Does with me

[Billly Gates]

The deal with Microsoft took font hinting away and IT BLEEDS MY EYES.

Maybe I am OCD but I go crazy like someone using Windows 8 for the first time. Yast controls everything and is slow and if something breaks script wise with Yast you are screwed as it shits on anything else it touches.

The driver issues are annoying as well as patent paranoia forcing the removal of mp3s, drivers, and of course LCD and Microsoft fonts. Sorry but LibraOffice needs both to render what is on yoru screen more accurately when someone with Office on Windows opens your files.

I guess it is great for a server actually as it has commercial IBM java support for it. But as a desktop I do not like it but that is out of taste and my opinion is rather old. CentOS works fine in a VM in Vmware so that is what I use as well as FreeBSD image for unix work.