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SUSE Linux Sold For $2.5 Billion (reuters.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the going-going-sold dept.

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.

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  1. Please get rid of systemd! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    To the new owners of SuSE: please get rid of systemd!

    It has caused me nothing but problems, and has made Linux effectively unusable. All of the main distros now use it, and the only ones that don't are ancient distros like Slackware, or hobbyist projects like Devuan and Gentoo.

    I would love to use a modern, well-supported enterprise-grade Linux distro that doesn't use systemd. If SuSE could offer me this systemd-free Linux experience, I would seriously consider switching back to Linux from Windows.

    1. Re: Please get rid of systemd! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I wish I could get to a command line prompt, nevermind a GUI, when using systemd/GNU/Linux. Too often I've experienced a systemd/GNU/Linux installation failing to boot fully because systemd screwed up in some obscure and dumb way. It doesn't matter how good you are at using the command line if the systemd/GNU/Linux installation can't even reliably get that far in the boot process!

    2. Re:Please get rid of systemd! by thegarbz · · Score: 1, Troll

      SystemD hasn't broken on me yet

      You must have read the manual. Don't do that. What you're supposed to do is assume nothing has changed from the sysvinit days, copy and paste everything, not learn how to setup a unit file, and then complain when it all goes to shit.