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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 Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 03 2018, @01:54AM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 03 2018, @01:54AM (#701679) Journal

    Arch is not user-unfreindly. Arch simply presumes that you know what you are doing, and know how to do it. And, Arch does provide a lot of cool documentation for those times when you knowledge falls short.

    I'm not using Arch, primarily because the installers barfed on my SuperMicro build. I was in a hurry to get it running, and didn't want to spend the time required to figure things out. But, I was happy with Arch on my previous build. Maybe if I had chosen a different Arch installation media, it would have worked better.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @03:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @03:04AM (#701708)

    you must follow the installation procedure on the wiki... if you did not chroot into your new system your doing it wrong

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday July 03 2018, @12:49PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday July 03 2018, @12:49PM (#701866)

    Arch is not user-unfreindly.

    We have different definitions of user-unfriendly.

    When I want a widget to do something for me, the number (and difficulty) of actions required to make the widget do the thing is inversely proportional to its user friendliness.

    Requiring a certain amount of knowledge for efficiently accomplishing certain tasks could be acceptable, and make something "user friendly for knowledgeable users." When common tasks (like configuration of the OS to a desired state) require 10x or more the amount of time and effort, regardless of knowledge level, that falls short of what I would call user friendly.

    OSs like Cent and Ubuntu are more or less: burn a USB, boot from that USB, accept all defaults, usable on 99% of common hardware. It doesn't take too many required configuration steps and trips to the cool documentation to make something 10x harder to use than that.

    Windows has actually fallen behind Cent and Ubuntu when it comes to installer friendliness, they're dependent on vendors pre-installing to achieve their "good out of the box" experience.

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