openSUSE is neat! If only I could actually update it from 15.4 to 15.5 without getting a Curl error. :(
The History of S.u.S.E
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#32I got a soft spot for SUSE. In the late 2000s, Novell partnered with my highschool to teach a certification class, so it became the distribution I cut my teeth on if you don't count my time playing with compiz window effects on a free Ubuntu live-disk in junior high.
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#33I've been a user of openSUSE since "openSUSE", nearly. It's my daily driver, today. I want to say I was playing with Mandrake, Red Hat and a little Gentoo at the time. I started using it regularly around 2010ish - I was working at a Windows shop and had a pretty elaborate home lab with Windows servers and domain controllers so I could do things at home "before trying that on corporate." I remember the deciding factor…
FWIW, I believe btrfs is also the default FS for Fedora these days (though not Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
True but SUSE (the enterprise version) is pretty clear about the use of btrfs, just use it for the OS (snapshots), the "data" partition should always be XFS.
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#34SUSE has always been this perennial figure in the Linux world for me; the Linux Distro that isn't talked about often, but is generally liked and respected, by most people who use it. I ran OpenSUSE for about a year in 2013-2014, and it did sort of have the Just Works nature to it: things did more or less what I expected them to do without much tinkering. It was the first Linux that I liked enough to be my sole operat…
I picked OpenSUSE as my personal desktop 15 years ago because its YaST confuguration module helped with administration. Same positve experience, apart from the occasional hiccup updating NVIDIA proprietary drivers.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, Americans put "National" in front of everything. At least the German version suggests some level of awareness of a world beyond the borders.
National is generic, but many companies in the U.S. include America in their name.
Last time Germans put a National in front of an organization it did not go so well.
Similar with Reich but surprisingly there are still a couple of things starting with Reich, like the Parliament building is still called Reichstag even if there is no Reich no more.
Americans use National mostly when things are uncontroversially national and international. For mostly national and controversially international things they prefer World, like World Series, WCW, WFL.
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#36SuSE doesn’t get enough credit for the quality of the distribution. Transactional updates, serious work towards a reproducible distribution, nano as an excellent container runtime, stability under large workloads - it’s a nice piece of engineering.
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#37SuSE doesn’t get enough credit for the quality of the distribution. Transactional updates, serious work towards a reproducible distribution, nano as an excellent container runtime, stability under large workloads - it’s a nice piece of engineering.
These are some of the reasons -- besides being German, probably -- that it's one of just a couple of Linux distros certified by SAP.
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#38I like openSUSE, but the predictability is dirt poor (which is why I don't use it for servers...or anything else).
About two years ago, LEAP was supposed to be canned for this new shiny thing, since then...nothing. So, dear openSUSE, should I install openSUSE Leap? Wait for the "new" thing, is this "new" thing also free or what? Or you know what? I have a better idea...I just install Debian or FreeBSD (community based, no endless reselling, no corporate overlord, clear messaging).
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#39Wow, I haven't seen Yggdrasil mentioned in a long time. In the early 90s, one of the guys at work tried to install it on a 386 PC. They never quite succeeded. Just a couple of years later I was running SuSE at home, after having started with Red Hat. The improvement in the distributions in that short amount of time was impressive.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
The original name of the company was S.u.S.E. with the dots. "Software- und System-Entwicklung" (Software and system development)
> Software- und System-Entwicklung Wow that's like naming your cleaning company "Cleaning Company"
Like OpenAI or IBM....or the best one..Oracle for a Database ;)