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Linux Pioneer SUSE Marks 25 Years In the Field (itwire.com)
troublemaker_23 shares an article from ITWire: The Germany-based SUSE Linux marked a milestone last week: on Friday, September 2, the company turned 25, a remarkable achievement in an industry where the remains of software companies litter the landscape around the world... SUSE was formed in 1992 by three university students -- Hubert Mantel, Roland Dyroff, and Burchard Steinbild. The fourth man in the equation was software engineer Thomas Fehr. They had a simple objective: to build software and deliver UNIX support. Linux had been around for a little more than a year at that point and they decided to use it... The name S.u.S.E is a German acronym and means "Software und System-Entwicklung", or "Software and systems development". The name was later changed to SuSE and some years on became SUSE...
Like other open source outfits, SUSE has widened its services and now not only provides an enterprise Linux distribution but has a well developed software-defined storage product and one for a container-as-a-service option. It also caters to those seeking cloud options and does more than its fair share in contributing to upstream FOSS projects. Along the way, it has spawned a top-notch community distribution, openSUSE, which is run by an autonomous board led by the ebullient British developer Richard Brown.
S.u.S.E Linux was one of the first distros, arriving in 1994 after Soft Landing Systems Linux (in mid-1992) and Slackware.
Like other open source outfits, SUSE has widened its services and now not only provides an enterprise Linux distribution but has a well developed software-defined storage product and one for a container-as-a-service option. It also caters to those seeking cloud options and does more than its fair share in contributing to upstream FOSS projects. Along the way, it has spawned a top-notch community distribution, openSUSE, which is run by an autonomous board led by the ebullient British developer Richard Brown.
S.u.S.E Linux was one of the first distros, arriving in 1994 after Soft Landing Systems Linux (in mid-1992) and Slackware.
I used to love SuSE for its ability to manage dependencies, especially circular dependencies. These used to drive mu nuts on RedHat.
To "resolve" them, I often used to "force install" them, ruining my system in the process. I understand things have since changed [for the better], right?
I had to look up the definition of the word 'ebullient'. I've learned that it's a chiefly British term meaning 'having effeminate gaiety and flamboyance'.
or even Windows instead.
I stopped reading right there, but I then realized it was too late!
Dude, you should perhaps consider educating yourself before making posting uninformed verbiage on a respectable resource like Slashdot.
It was a ripoff of slackware, hence SOUR.
it uses GNOME 3
No. The default desktop is KDE. See
https://en.opensuse.org/KDE
And German companies, such as SUSE, are required to have stricter privacy protections than American companies, such as Red Hat.
It's no wonder so many people are moving away from Linux, and using alternate OSes like FreeBSD, macOS or even Windows instead.
Got some stats for this? If you do, let's see them ... I'd be genuinely interested. If you don't, you're a troll.
How is use a different package format a possible advantage for Debian but not for Fedora/SUSE? They are both different to each other.
I preferred SUSE but I don't remember all that much about why, but: .. :D
1) Didn't the default desktop used to be KDE for SUSE? Or neither/pick what you want? Is the default Gnome now?
2) SUSE normal media used an actual configurable installer I think where you get to pick what you wanted whereas Fedora just threw in whatever crap they thought you should have and that was that. (There's some net installer for Fedora which I think give you more options.)
3) Fedora by default used some patching-crap to fetch package upgrades which was much slower on my machine rather than just fetching the new packages in their full. Of course is may be a trade-off between network and CPU capacity and is definitely configurable.
4) I think less stuff may work by default in Fedora because it's locked down harder as far as audio and video and such goes. Which may be positive or negative. Of course one can still use both in Fedora.
5) Both seem to run sshd and have remote root login enabled by default which are both shitty stupid settings if you ask me. I used to run the BSDs so I wasn't used to that and once upon a time had sat the root password to simply "ok" because I wanted something simple I assume and no-one else was using my machine anyway. Not the best with such a setup
For me Fedora was basically nothing but annoyances. Dumb installer, more work to get a desktop running, slow updating of packages, the stupid SSH defaults. The Ubuntu installer was graphical and never managed to actually launch it's graphical shit on my machine either. So that too were junk. Both SUSE I think and Debian had actual installers with options and in the case of Debian non-graphical and in the case of something like OpenBSD fitting on one floppy disc so that's what I prefer. I guess offering a live image to test it out or use sometimes and being able to install from that is also fine but I hate when auto"magical" stuff is trying to do shit for you and then they fail. Back in Archlinux beta Archlinux broke the audiomixer and USB devices. I don't want upgrading my OS to break stuff .. With FreeBSD you'd get documentation which cover the upgrade and changes you need to do to make things work again if anything. That's acceptable.
In my experience, when windows crashes, all os's do, it crashes hard. After multiple failed attempts at recovery and hours later, it can come back, but all Linux distros would have come back sooner. Windows sucks. Still does. Especially windows 10
Shit, I'm old.
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Is it still unusable trash?
Back when Linux distributions were sold in stores, I bought a boxed version of SuSE from Best Buy for $35. I installed Postfix, but everytime I did an update Postfix was replaced by Sendmail. Very annoying. So I sold it on Ebay (yes, forreal!) for $10 or so. Those were the days...
>respectable
>Slashdot
Lul
All my machines now run openSUSE Tumbleweed updated to 2017-09-04. Local modifications are minimal. Updates are safe. Not a single failure since initial installation in September 2017. See also https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/
No shit.. You stated
It's like all modern Linux distros, with the exception of unusable niche ones like Slackware, Devuan and even Gentoo, have basically become shitty clones of Fedora with the main difference being what you type to install packages. Otherwise they're pretty much all the same, forcing crap like systemd, GNOME 3 and PulseAudio on you.
If you knew what you were talking about, you'd KNOW that distros such as Slackware and
Devuan DO NOT use systemd, AND you'd NOT be saying they're unusable.. The fact you
say they're unusable means you don't know squat about Linux..
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
Nobody knows how to pronounce the distro's name. People will refer to it as "Soosee, or Soosa, whatever"..
Well that's the difference, you see - Windows doesn't have systemd. Just give it a year or so and systemd will have Windows.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Whatever happened to then?
http://saveie6.com/
From what I read (thought they went under) is it's significantly cheaper than Redhat.
You're looking at features. Corporations don't care about pulse audio and packages. They want support and server hardware support. If SuSE has the same level as Redhat then it can be cheaper and it's someone they can sue if it fails and call if there is a problem.
The question is if anything is certified for SuSE anymore or is it Solaris, Windows Server, or Redhat? Not meant as a troll but I have not heard anything about it since Bush was in office
http://saveie6.com/
SUSE has Yast, love it or hate it, it's unique to linux and presents the same interface across gui or headless systems. Zypper is also the package management system yum wants to be when it grows up.
Aside from that OpenSUSE, IMHO, it has the hands down best hardware support of any distribution. I used to slum it with Ubuntu when I ran into packages missing in OpenSUSE, but that's almost never the case now. SUSE build services are awesome and if you haven't checked out SUSE studio, your missing out.
Cheap storage VM.
Most stuff is certified for SUSE, it's not as popular in the US, but very common in Europe. I ran a SLES based cluster for the last couple years.
My understanding is that RH wants you to license every copy once you licence any copy of RH. SUSE doesn't really care if your license lapses, you just won't be getting support on that machine anymore.
Cheap storage VM.
openSUSE gives you the option of using KDE instead of Gnome.
CentOS is cheaper still.
I think it's one of the supported nixy platforms for SAP, along with RHEL and the Oracle one that's basically RHEL.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
When you say Europe, do you mean Germany?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Was my first Linux distribution with a 0.97 kernel. Good times.
Redhat Eula bans centos. You must only use Redhat for all servers.Not pay for one license and use their support for CentOS. Still if there is a problem with one of your Dell servers they will tell you to install Redhat and hang up. Enterprise support is a big thing for CIOs for this reason.
http://saveie6.com/
yes, its shit. it still can't install anything without multiple reboots etc
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
There's other differentiators as well. With Red Hat pulling out, Ubuntu throwing a lot of weight behind a ZFS kernel module, and Debian staying in the dark ages, SUSE is now the only major Linux vendor putting serious effort into BTRFS.
While I don't use SUSE, their continued existence is something that benefits others too.
unusable niche ones like Slackware, Devuan and even Gentoo
Unusable? I've been using Gentoo for years. And with Gentoo you have the option of using or not using systemd as you choose. Gentoo might be unusable for you maybe, but not for me.
no wonder so many people are moving away from Linux
Not so. Look at RHT share price: it keeps going up and up as more companies start using it. My real-world experience tells me that what you are saying "just ain't so". It appears you took your own experience and extrapolated and exaggerated it from a small manure pile to produce a proportion of dung as high as Mt. Everest.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver --Proverbs 25:11
My cluster was for Rolls-Royce, based in the UK. This was a US clone of their larger UK one.
Cheap storage VM.
Which Rolls-Royce? If it's the car one I rest my case.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
nah, someone else makes the cars, we made aircraft engines.
Cheap storage VM.