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
#2This 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.
Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS
#3Headline doesn't seem to give full picture. From https://www.suse.com/c/suse-liberty-linux/:
>SUSE Liberty Linux is a new technology and support offering that provides customers a unified support experience for managing their heterogeneous IT environments. With SUSE Liberty Linux, you get trusted support with optional proven management tools that are optimized for mixed Linux environments, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and as you would expect openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Re: 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
#5openSUSE 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
Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS
#6This 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.
Suse isn’t owned by a large consulting/marketing firm (IBM). Tech and specifically Linux support is central to their business case.
Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS
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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.
Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS
#8This 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.
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...
Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS
#9This 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.
Suse isn’t owned by a large consulting/marketing firm (IBM). Tech and specifically Linux support is central to their business case.
SUSE is owned, through various companies, the Wallenberg Family nowadays, isn't it?
Re: SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS
#10Earlier 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.
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.