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SUSE Linux Sold for $2.5 Billion
British software company Micro Focus International has agreed to sell SUSE Linux and its associated software business to Swedish private equity group EQT Partners for $2.535 billion.
Also at The Register, Linux Journal, MarketWatch, and Reuters.
Previously: SuSE Linux has a New Owner
HPE Wraps Up $8.8bn Micro Focus Software Dump Spin-Off
Related: SUSE Pledges Endless Love for btrfs; Says Red Hat's Dumping Irrelevant
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @06:46PM (3 children)
I once tried Suse, starting from their damn slow Yawn package manager, that experience sucked so much, that never again.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by shrewdsheep on Monday July 02 2018, @08:34PM (1 child)
These days are gone and package management is just fine by now, but your experience indeed represents many of similar kind. Opensuse has produced too many unstable distros in the recent past (11.x/12.x/42.0) blatantly ignorant of any kind of usability, this was pointed out by GP (13.x was very good, BTW). A logical consequence would be to replace the Opensuse board but that seems to be factually impossible, watch a conference video on the opensuse youtube channel. I am still with Opensuse due to my understanding of the distribution but I am otherwise unwilling to contribute due to these endless hours I needed to spend on getting a usable system.
That being said, you can get a stable system if you install Leap (the non-rolling distribution) for which you have to manually upgrade several components (kernel, depending on hardware, perl using perlbrew). This is due to one of the recent mistakes to unify Leap and SLES on a common base. It was sold as a benefit to the opensuse user for being "enterprise", however, it only means outdated packages in practice and only makes it easier for SLES to pull more current releases.
What are the strong points? You can very efficiently post own packages and make them available for install (OBS), the updates for Leap have become very reliable, and package management works very well. For example, when 42.0 was announced I did an upgrade very shortly after release as the 13.x had extremely smooth upgrades. I was shocked by what was done to the distribution and I could downgrade to 13.3 from a 42.0 system with a completely reliable system thereafter. I later upgraded from 13.3 to 42.1 which worked fine. 42.2, 42.3 were fine, I have not dared to touch 15.0 just yet.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday July 02 2018, @09:28PM
Ditto about the package management. Yast and Zypper are the best I've seen for power and options.
I in-place-updated from 13.2 directly to Leap 15.0, (not wipe and re-install) and it worked perfectly.
I did have some clean up after the fact, mostly deleting packages that had been dropped over the intervening releases.
But still, package management isn't fast. Never has been. I'm spoiled by Manjaro: Into and out of package management in seconds, just to check out some tidbit of information. I avoid that like the plague with Opensuse, because getting into Yast, twiddeling thumbs while waiting for it to update every repository, I've forgotten why I went in there in the first place.
Zypper (command line package management) has more options than Carter has Pills, none of them particularly obvious, keeps me using Yast.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by eravnrekaree on Monday July 02 2018, @10:44PM
You can use zypper for upgrades/ package install which is actually faster in my opinion than the apt-get. Try zypper, its great.