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SUSE Linux Sold For $2.5 Billion (reuters.com)
Archangel Michael writes: Reuters is reporting that Britain's Micro Focus has agreed to sell its SUSE open-source enterprise software business to Swedish buyout group EQT Partners for $2.535 billion, lifting its shares 6 percent. Micro Focus, a serial acquirer that has been struggling to get to grips with a $8.8 billion Hewlett Packard Enterprise deal, said on Monday it would use some of the proceeds to reduce debt and could return some of the rest to shareholders. SUSE is used by banks, universities and government agencies around the world and is a pioneer in enterprise-grade Linux software serving companies such as Air India, Daimler and Total.
All the main distros use it because it is good, a huge improvement.
If it is causing you problems, my advice is to look for some kind of "linux for dummies" type of book. Or better, stop pretending you're a sysadmin and breaking your web terminal; try sticking to the stuff in the GUI menu.
When you tell people to RTFM, they often don't realize the value provided! ;)
The reason for the emergency, an external data drive wasn't present.
So admin did something incredibly stupid requiring the automounting of an external device at boot time and is upset that his misconfiguration caused his system to boot.
Got it.
I use a CentOS 7 as a development workstation and multiple test, staging and production servers. All with systemd. It is reliable and gives me no trouble at all.
systemd is actually pretty good. Basically, people have this idea that systemd forces you to do things one way and it takes away your choice to do it the old way. This is false and its a major misconception. systemd does not take away any functionality, it only adds additional functionality. What this means is you can still start services exactly as you have before. If you want to use sysvinit init, you can, just as you have before. In fact, it gives you a choice of what kind of init style to use. If you want to use sysvinit, you can with systemd. Because systemd has complete backward compatibility with sysvinit and does not deny people the ability to continue to start services as they have before, the objections against systemd lack merit, and are moot, and actually harmful as they are based on falsehoods and misconceptions.
Mainly, the opposition to systemd comes from people who do not think other people should be allowed to use the functionality that systemd offers, because systemd doesnt prevent you from using things the way you want to, it does not take away any fucntionality, sysvinit, it doesnt deny them the ability to use them the way they want to use it. So the systemd haters are the ones who want to take away users freedom and want to force their own preferences on everyone else. Devuan is ridiculous and unnecessary because anyone can use sysvinit on a systemd OS because systemd supports it.
systemd actually gives you more control over the system rather than being this automata so you can actually configure things more precisely than you could before, which dismisses this idea it has any similarity to Windows. There is none at all. Its an open source project, it has a high degree of control, flexibility and configurability.