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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 02 2018, @06:53PM (7 children)
https://manjaro.org/ [manjaro.org]
"User friendly Arch" - how similar is this to "military intelligence"?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Monday July 02 2018, @07:05PM (1 child)
You found the link, why not try it (in a VM perhaps) and see for yourself rather than posting cheapshots?
Either the KDE or XFCE versions make a good first installs. They have a Gnome version too, but the world does not need yet another gnome.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 02 2018, @10:39PM
So, leaving the world of cheapshots for a serious question: How's KDE with 4K displays these days?
Back when all my displays were 1920x1080, I used KDE as my daily driver and also as a product development target, and recommended it to the few people who asked... Then around 2014 I got a 4K laptop and I really couldn't deal with all the micro-fonts that showed up by default in Kubuntu 14.04... sure, it was fixable, everything is fixable, I just don't have the patience when other solutions work better out of the box.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 02 2018, @09:43PM
To paraphrase a bit, Arch *is* user-friendly, it's just really demanding about who it makes friends with and what it expects from said friends.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 03 2018, @01:54AM (2 children)
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
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
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.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday July 03 2018, @06:55AM
Manjaro is very user friendly if you want KDE. It is IMHO more user friendly that Kubuntu. If you like GNOME then go with Ubuntu.
Manjaro by default uses a wrapper over pacman [archlinux.fr] and also comes with UI for it (that I never use, but it works).
Really, imagine Kbuntu, then imagine it was as first class citizen of canonical-land as Ubuntu. That's Manjaro.
Just a happy user. All I had to do was forget about leaving systemd.