SUSE's New Linux Release Isn't for Your Desktop - FOSS Force:
While it's not going to be of much use to those running Linux on a desktop or laptop, minified versions of Linux like SUSE's SLE Micro are becoming essential in the enterprise, both for DevOps teams working in containerized environments and for IoT devices running at the edge.
Yesterday SUSE released a new version in one of its lines of SUSE Linux Enterprise operating systems — SUSE Linux Enterprise-Micro 5.2
Don't worry, this doesn't mean that if you're using SUSE to run your desktop you'll need to upgrade, even if you're using SUSE to run a server or two. This one's for DevOps teams who use SLE Micro as part of their container infrastructure or in edge deployments, or for manufacturers who embed it in their internet of things devices.
[...] With enterprises' ever increasing use of containers and IoT, all of the server-focused Linux distributions offer minified versions of their distribution. Canonical, for example, has Ubuntu Core, which has the distinction of supporting Snaps for installing sandboxed software, an addition that could be especially useful for IoT and for enterprise edge deployments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @02:23PM (2 children)
So that means germany finally gets an IOT distro because all they seem to use there is suse. Nobody else uses it.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @06:28PM
my install of steam uses it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 18 2022, @10:32PM
Intel corporation uses SuSE Enterprise edition for all its hardware design work.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by zafiro17 on Sunday April 17 2022, @03:20PM (3 children)
Looks like this is the money quote:
If your business model is staying relevent to enterprises, then this makes good sense and keeps you in the same market as Red Hat.
I can't help but be nostalgic about SuSE Linux (spelling/caps intentional) as it was my first Linux distro back in 2001 and it was instrumental in helping me learn to love *nix in general. But the distro I know and love is long gone and after many shifts in ownership it remains firmly focused on enterprise infrastructure, not desktop. The few times I tried to reinstall a modern version of opensuse I was pretty disappointed in how unfriendly it was. (These days I'm on Mageia and Mint, with FreeBSD on my servers). Still, can't help but remember the good ole days.
I've got a retail box of SuSE 8.2 I occasionally install in a virtual machine. The things I use it for still work great. It's unusable for web browsing of course, but why would anyone want to do that in a retro distro anyway - not safe.
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis - Jack Handey
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @06:38PM
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday April 18 2022, @12:30PM (1 child)
Like you, SuSE was my first Linux, all the way back in 1999. But it was soon abundantly clear that with a good Internet connection, there was better stuff out there, so I got used to Red Hat, and later Debian, and as they started changing ownership again and again it was pretty clear the mojo was gone.
I'd rather use Slackware, which put out a new major release version in February, than dip into SuSE again.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 20 2022, @04:28PM
This is the only thing I remember SUSE making in the past 10 years that I like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRlTISvjww [youtube.com]
;)
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @04:07PM (1 child)
All those words, and yet not a single link to the manufacturer's site. Is this news or blogspam?
So here [suse.com] is the announcement, and here [suse.com] is the download link. Of course, it won't do you any good because you'll have to register before downloading. But I'm not impressed with a "micro" image that's 600MB xz-compressed.
(Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Sunday April 17 2022, @06:40PM
For a linux OS 600MB isn't big at all. It leaves plenty of room on a Pi-whatever.
Most distros today are much larger than that and if you want them on optical storage you will need a DVD not a CD.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @07:30PM (1 child)
I just installed SuSE 8.2 Pro in a VM and discovered that the web was basically inaccessible. Konqueror just said it couldn't connect. Mozilla expanded on that a bit: "Mozilla and website cannot communicate securely because they have no common encryption algorithms."
Not surprising, but disappointing.
I wasn't expecting YaST to find the SuSE repos for updates -- the company has changed hands multiple times since 8.2 was released, after all -- but I was a little disappointed to be cut off from the web. Among other things, I was hoping to see how poorly web sites would render on an older browser given the modern over-reliance on scripting and overwhelming volume of ads.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 18 2022, @08:56AM
waaat? what's this called in internet language? shill?
this is prolly not a suse problem at all. try the same browser version on windblows 95 and be just as disappointed?
maybe you should try downloading a new version of the linux version of firefox then?
link: https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ [mozilla.org]
try on windblows 95 too?
anyways, my non-expert guess would be that any http website with out the "s" will work just fine?
one could also try the firefox version that came with suse 8.2 on windblows XI (or any new linux os) and be disapointed just the same?
alas ...