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El Reg reports
Attachmate, the software shop that headhunted Novell and SUSE Linux, is itself being bought out by Micro Focus International.
The mainframe and COBOL specialist is acquiring Attachmate Group from its parent company Wizard in a deal calculated at $2.3bn before costs.
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Attachmate gives MicroFocus access to SUSE and Novell, business units bought by the company in 2010 for $2.2bn. Novell owned SUSE Linux, which it had bought in 2003 for $210m. Under Attachmate, the two were broken apart.
putting 882 patents in its Linux portfolio up for sale to a consortium backed by Microsoft.
SUSE is chief steward of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server while Novell has been re-shaped to sell end-point management and collaboration software.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 17 2014, @02:11PM
Not being in Germany I had the impression Debian pretty much owns Germany, like everywhere else.
Debian is developers. Debian is geeks. But in a commercial environment? If by some miracle it is not Microsoft? Good chance it is Suse.
So, this was it for me with SN. This is a showstopper. Good bye.
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(Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Wednesday September 17 2014, @02:26PM
SUSE has been my go-to distro since 2001, when I uninstalled Win98 and never looked back. I don't have any insight into SUSE's popularity, but I suspect it's not being primarily used for websurfing, so it's potentially not going to be showing up well in systems that try to guess distro's popularity by that measure. It's always been in the top 5 of Distrowatch's statistics, and it seems to be one of the "big guns" of Linux distros, so that must count for something.
My only gripe with SUSE is RPM and related tools instead of APT-GET, which is so phenomenally awesome. But other than that, it's got some tools that make things damned easy, and you can get huge amounts of configuration done - even over a SSH connection - using YaST - without touching the command line. That's useful.
I used it on a VPS server for a while before getting burned by an end-of-life that meant I couldn't get up-to-date packages. I turned to FreeBSD for my servers and have never regretted it. But on my desktop, even though I occasionally run PC-BSD and Bodhi Linux, SUSE is my first choice. Takes a while to install but it doesn't give me any hassle whatsoever with things like printers, runlevels, network settings and resettings and reconfigs, and has a huge repository of packages, plus a build service that makes it easy to get other software compiled and running on openSUSE.
Attachmate has done good things to the distro and they're poised to do some more innovation, especially around YaST, which has been an essentially underutilized resource ever since the original, German SUSE company was bought out by Novell. Novell, for their part, wasted a lot of time dicking around under Miguel deIcaza's "supervision" porting a bunch of KDE stuff to Gnome, and then back.
If you want a good KDE distro, SUSE is one of the best. And they're clearly making money off it, so good for Attachmate and good for Micro.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday September 17 2014, @05:04PM
I miss Corel linux... thanks Microsoft for killing it. You bastards.
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(Score: 2) by Blackmoore on Wednesday September 17 2014, @08:44PM
that is odd. but we're looking into it. afterall is it counting you- or AC in general? I have no clue. was it 25 from your IP in 24 hours?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by cykros on Wednesday September 17 2014, @10:16PM
Heh, just a timely reminder that just because we got Slashcode functioning over here doesn't mean all of the kinks are worked out, or even that the admins have had a chance to comb through everything.
Sounds like a policy the old site had, at least back when it was on Slashcode. With our userbase though, it'd definitely be nice to see the minimums inflated a bit, as chasing away reasonable traffic isn't something we should be engaged in quite yet if you ask me. Sounds like it just had to do with anti-flood measures that came up at one point or another in the old site's long and varied history.