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posted by takyon on Monday July 02 2018, @05:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-free dept.

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: 2) by frojack on Monday July 02 2018, @09:28PM

    by frojack (1554) on Monday July 02 2018, @09:28PM (#701585) Journal

    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.

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