From CentOS to OpenSUSE Leap: How to Feel at Home
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Re: From CentOS to OpenSUSE Leap: How to Feel at Home
#2I've been using Leap extensively for personal projects, and I really like the philosophy of the distro, but it feels very different from CentOS (which I use at work).
A lot of the tooling that has been built for SLES is included in OpenSuSE (yast, snapper, etc.) and it makes a world of difference for managing servers.
I understand why they want to cater to the CentOS sysadmins looking for an alternative, but without the brand recognition of RHEL behind it, it's an uphill battle -despite being a very good distro in its own right.
Re: From CentOS to OpenSUSE Leap: How to Feel at Home
#3I moved from Ubuntu to OpenSUSE tumbleweed recently and I must say it is lovely. The OS is still the Linux I learned when running slackware (with some modern extras that I have learned to live with) while still giving me most of the polish of Ubuntu.
Some things were of course strange. Having to type the disk encryption password twice being standard behaviour is pretty strange, and not getting to set the keyboard layout properly on install is always a bummer (I use Swedish Dvorak). Ubuntu is the only distro so far that gets this right in the installer.
It was an easy fix in SUSE though.
Re: From CentOS to OpenSUSE Leap: How to Feel at Home
#4Still not sure whether I want to move to Tumbleweed or Gentoo. I have reservations that Gentoo might be less stable but on the other hand you don't have to `emerge --deep @world` every day.
Re: From CentOS to OpenSUSE Leap: How to Feel at Home
#5Still not sure whether I want to move to Tumbleweed or Gentoo. I have reservations that Gentoo might be less stable but on the other hand you don't have to `emerge --deep @world` every day.
Arch Linux is your friend. You will find all the packages in AUR and answers you seek in documentation or with extremely active community.
Not as ‘deep’ as gentoo and not as script kiddy as tumbleweed. I use Leap for servers and installed gentoo to learn things initially. Love all the distributions named here!
Re: From CentOS to OpenSUSE Leap: How to Feel at Home
#6We have been using openSuSE Leap on our servers for at least 12 years and are quite happy with it. Compared to CentOS, Ubuntu LTS and Debian it has a yearly release cycle and 18 month support window.
https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime
Upgrades between minor versions are quite easy to do and imply minimal risk. Since 15.3 if ones uses btrfs and something goes wrong the upgrade can also be rolled back. It has both yast (text ui) and zypper (cli) for system configuration and package installs, the config files in /etc are also quite sane, without lots of includes and convoluted hierarchy.
On the desktop we still use Unbutu LTS. I've tried to switch to Debian but had issues, I would have switched to Leap but it wasn't clear if it has Gnome desktop and how polished it is. Thmbleweed has got it, but since we use it for work we don't want our dev environment breaking.
Re: From CentOS to OpenSUSE Leap: How to Feel at Home
#7I moved from Ubuntu to OpenSUSE tumbleweed recently and I must say it is lovely. The OS is still the Linux I learned when running slackware (with some modern extras that I have learned to live with) while still giving me most of the polish of Ubuntu. Some things were of course strange. Having to type the disk encryption password twice being standard behaviour is pretty strange, and not getting to set the keyboard lay…
IIRC you can set the keyboard layout right at the start of the install. It should be on the same page as the license agreement.
Re: From CentOS to OpenSUSE Leap: How to Feel at Home
#8Still not sure whether I want to move to Tumbleweed or Gentoo. I have reservations that Gentoo might be less stable but on the other hand you don't have to `emerge --deep @world` every day.
Arch Linux is your friend. You will find all the packages in AUR and answers you seek in documentation or with extremely active community. Not as ‘deep’ as gentoo and not as script kiddy as tumbleweed. I use Leap for servers and installed gentoo to learn things initially. Love all the distributions named here!
It also makes it easy to write and share your own packages when you need something that's not in the repos (or the AUR). The first package will take you about an hour of reading documentation (which is 10+ times less than it took to build my first Debian package), but the next ones will not take more than 5-10 minutes.
Re: From CentOS to OpenSUSE Leap: How to Feel at Home
#9We have been using openSuSE Leap on our servers for at least 12 years and are quite happy with it. Compared to CentOS, Ubuntu LTS and Debian it has a yearly release cycle and 18 month support window. https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime Upgrades between minor versions are quite easy to do and imply minimal risk. Since 15.3 if ones uses btrfs and something goes wrong the upgrade can also be rolled back. It has both yast (…
Re: From CentOS to OpenSUSE Leap: How to Feel at Home
#10Still not sure whether I want to move to Tumbleweed or Gentoo. I have reservations that Gentoo might be less stable but on the other hand you don't have to `emerge --deep @world` every day.
Arch Linux is your friend. You will find all the packages in AUR and answers you seek in documentation or with extremely active community. Not as ‘deep’ as gentoo and not as script kiddy as tumbleweed. I use Leap for servers and installed gentoo to learn things initially. Love all the distributions named here!
> not as script kiddy as tumbleweed
The AUR is a literal definition of a script kiddie given its a repo of shell scripts to install things and not an actual package repo.