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If they are sold, which I think it would be a good thing, I hope a competent organization. But these days, it will probably be another Private Equity Company that will force it to go all in on AI, eventually ruining SUSE :(
Only if the buyer is an-EU company. If it gets picked up by a non-EU entity, it will most likely end up being a stick in the rear wheel of the sovereign cloud bike.
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There’s also harvester on top of rancher. It’s one of the very few open source competitors to RedHats OpenShift that I’m aware of. I mostly like their use of an immutable OS as base layer for the virtualization - despite the limitations it sometimes has.
Harvester is just Kubevirt with some UI atop it, the same as Redhat Virt. Works fine if you’re hosting datacenters or whatever, haven’t seen it be suitable in smaller manufacturing environment
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Nobody uses SuseLinux any more. If SUSE gets 6 billion dollars and a private equity firm gets nothing valuable, there's nothing wrong with that.
Maybe for your personal workstation this might be the experience you have. But from my experience for enterprise there is RHEL, Suse and maybe Ubuntu Pro. If you are an AWS Enterprise customer you might justify Amazon Linux
I think Ubuntu Pro is more common in service providers that sell to enterprises rather than in enterprises themselves. It enables them to say "yes, we comply with all of these box-ticking standards that you require your vendors to have!" without bringing in much of the rest of the enterprise baggage.
SuSE is used more heavily than any of them - as others have said, they're used more or less everywhere where SAP is to be found, and they're very strong in the HPC space too.
This whole thing of private equity + companies getting massively inflated - only ends one way, it might not be this this buyer but one down the line, but there is something deeply wrong with the whole model, the one that starts with startups such as those funded by ycombinator.
This whole thing of private equity + companies getting massively inflated - only ends one way, it might not be this this buyer but one down the line, but there is something deeply wrong with the whole model, the one that starts with startups such as those funded by ycombinator.
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Harvester is just Kubevirt with some UI atop it, the same as Redhat Virt. Works fine if you’re hosting datacenters or whatever, haven’t seen it be suitable in smaller manufacturing environment
It fundamentally is rke2+rancher+kubevirt, but there’s a lot of packaging around it to make that work.
I liked it when I used it, but it wasn’t really a fit for our environment from what i’ve seen.