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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: 1) by AlwaysNever on Monday July 02 2018, @09:06PM (5 children)
Does it have SystemD? Honest question.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @09:18PM (1 child)
It's not listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_distributions_without_systemd [wikipedia.org] so that suggests it does.
(Score: 3, Troll) by frojack on Monday July 02 2018, @10:05PM
It has systemd, and their systemd (like everybody elses) works perfectly and is easier to maintain and use than their old init system, and is fully opensource, easily mastered. Suse's standard set of systemd services, timers, and such are pretty standard. Its logging is better than the old rats nest of logs.
Adopting systemd actually cured many of Suse's problems. They suffered from the German Computing Disease" If one level of indirection was good, two, three, or five levels must be better.
Previously they had parameters hidden deeper and deeper in rats nests of config files for scripting structures stacked 5 layers deep. Way worse than other distros. Systemd pretty much banished much of that and saved Suse from themselves.
I'm still not happy with what systemd did to /etc/mtab but that's the only significant bitch I have.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by requerdanos on Monday July 02 2018, @10:55PM
Frojack says it does, and not only that, but that systemd made it less bad, not more bad, so that's two strikes against it right there if you are not in love with systemd.
That, plus that fact that it was sold to "something something equity group something partners" (goal "self-monetize, synergizing core competencies to maximize investor advantage in market-oriented segmentation buzzword bingo") and not a firm leading in technology or operating systems (goal: don't suck) should give you the basic overview of where things are headed.
As for the system itself, hey, why not try it? Could be fun while it lasts.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by eravnrekaree on Tuesday July 03 2018, @04:31AM (1 child)
systemd, not SystemD. All of the major distros have it. Its nothing really unusual as Ubuntu had upstart for many years. systemd has allowed standardization between the distros and avoiding duplication of effort. You can use system v init scripts on systemd, so it does not take away any functionality from you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @09:49AM
"All of the major distros have it."
Everyone does it, so it must be good? That argument doesn't really pass here -- this site's very existence is rooted in rebellion against that concept, as someone with sucha a low UID should know :)