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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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spagmumps, n.:
Any of the millions of Styrofoam wads that accompany mail-order items.
-- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday July 03 2018, @12:49PM
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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