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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.
If SuSE is worth $2.5B, then what is Slackware worth?
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.
Will be interesting on how this works out with 'big banks', COBOL, SUSE and IBM Mainframes
Wrong. All the professional systems admins I know curse it, it is bad. I admin hundreds of systems and am sorry I'm being forced to upgrade them into the bloated, unstable, needlessly complicated garbage that is systemd.
It does not belong on enterprise servers, it is bad enginering.
All the main distros use it because it is good, a huge improvement.
SystemD is 2010s version of Microsoft wizards of the 1990s.
... wait, what ARE you doing? What IS that? Never mind, I'll just ignore it." And it gets confused or out of sync. And on any breakage, even better, now YOU'RE confused as well, and even worse YOU literally don't know what's going on.
;-) you begin to wonder.
They're great. They really are. They're easy to use, helpful, and just work.
That is until they don't. And then you're screwed
"Domain interpreters", if you will, are superb at what they do. They make all of the hard stuff "go away", kinda like programming libraries. That is, as long as you stay WITHIN their domain and do things as expected.
The moment you take one minor baby step outside what they expect or control, it all goes to Hell. It's confused because: "You're doing
SystemD hasn't broken on me yet, but I've heard horror stores of non-standard or even not-quite-mainstream configs that work and then they suddenly won't. And if you look at some of the bugs Pottering has declared WONTFIX (referred to by that random ignored bastion of unworthyness
The best thing about domain interpreters is that in a must-work complex situation is that you have to call for help. And who better than your distro maintainer? And then no reason at all, guess who SystemD's main author, Pottering, is employed by?
Oh, Debian is the literal base for a bunch of distros, including Ubuntu. RedHat also supports a few you might have heard of. You might be interested in the Debian vote for SystemD.
I'm a RHCE, SuSE something, Microsoft something, Novell CNE, and what-all else, or at least was -- retired, so guess I don't count anymore. Once I get my storage usage under control, I'm beginning a move to FreeBSD.
If you've "broken your web terminal" you should run "reset". And your homepage seems to be currently down, BTW.
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
Blog post: https://www.suse.com/c/further...
Post says SuSE is used by banks, etc., but many companies also use it. I know the servers at local Wal-marts are using it, for example.
on a headless debian system, I had the joy of systemd dropping out to an emergency shell
Trouble was SSH wasn't up and running at this point so it was impossible to access this emergency shell.
The reason for the emergency, an external data drive wasn't present.
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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.