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SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS

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Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS

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Post by faho »

nix23 wrote: post #5

openSUSE Leap openSUSE Tumbleweed openSUSE MicroOS openSUSE Kubic Ranger/SUSE K3os SUSE EnterpriseLinux SUSE Liberty Linux ...a bit too much no? BTW: The name is horrible...hell, even "Pop OS" is better

Except it's not "Pop OS". It's "Pop!_OS".

Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS

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Post by ianai »

lproven wrote: post #8
ianai wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Suse isn’t owned by a large consulting/marketing firm (IBM). Tech and specifically Linux support is central to their business case.

[Article author here] True. Although IBM has sold off a lot of its consulting business, you know. https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-11-03-IBM-Completes-the-Separa...

Someone who’s worked with lots of marketing professionals here, of course the marketing professionals have sold a ton!

Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS

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Post by nix23 »

faho wrote: post #11
nix23 wrote: post #5

openSUSE Leap openSUSE Tumbleweed openSUSE MicroOS openSUSE Kubic Ranger/SUSE K3os SUSE EnterpriseLinux SUSE Liberty Linux ...a bit too much no? BTW: The name is horrible...hell, even "Pop OS" is better

Except it's not "Pop OS". It's "Pop!_OS".

Pop#!/bin/OS would have been easier to memorize ;)

Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS

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Post by froh »

Veen wrote: post #2

This is good news, I suppose. But why should users trust SUSE to maintain a free RHEL clone for the long term when Red Hat came to the conclusion it was bad business. Once bitten, twice shy.

To my understanding suse has offered CentOS maintenance for along time already, in a package to migrate you over to SUSE Linux Enterprise. and the service level agreements only apply for customers, as in paying customers.

So it's _customers_ who can trust it.

Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS

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Post by morganvachon »

lproven wrote: post #7
mormorando wrote: post #4

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[Article author here] I used to, yes. In what way do you feel it is a hit piece? I certainly did not intend for it to be one.

Yeah, I think the GP meant to say "puff piece" instead of "hit piece".

Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS

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Post by froh »

nix23 wrote: post #5

openSUSE Leap openSUSE Tumbleweed openSUSE MicroOS openSUSE Kubic Ranger/SUSE K3os SUSE EnterpriseLinux SUSE Liberty Linux ...a bit too much no? BTW: The name is horrible...hell, even "Pop OS" is better

Why?

Tumbleweed is the rolling baseline.

SLES is the major release branched off that, every 2 years.

Leap is a regular release of tumbleweed, rebased to SLES, to get current packages.

MicroOS is a configuration and repackaging of dunno, leap probably

So they have one baseline, all of them, openSUSE

Liberty Linux is a repackaging of rocky Linux, no? Which ad I said, suse had been doing already before.

And the ranger/kubic stuff came with an own team.

The beastie enabling all these related configurations single source cross CPU architecture is their open build server combined with their openQA.

These guys rock. Except in marketing...

Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS

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Post by mfer »

ianai wrote: post #10
tolle wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SUSE is owned, through various companies, the Wallenberg Family nowadays, isn't it?

EQT, a private holding firm, per google. Private and holding are doing a lot of work in that sentence.

SUSE is a public company, now. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SUSE.DE?p=SUSE.DE&.tsrc=fin-...

Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS

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Post by paulcarroty »

I used to use Tumbleweed and can't say nothing bad, very solid system. Also remember many high-note IRC public discussions with one SUSE high rank employee :)

They deserve to be more popular, probably marketing & sales teams ain't good enough. This Centos clone after 6 months seems like another failure. Enough clones, go ship some killer-features.

Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS

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Post by ianai »

mfer wrote: post #17
ianai wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

EQT, a private holding firm, per google. Private and holding are doing a lot of work in that sentence.

SUSE is a public company, now. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SUSE.DE?p=SUSE.DE&.tsrc=fin-...

Welp, judge them by their actions.
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