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When I read this it actually screamed OpenSUSE is a great alternative. I seriously can't see any other Distro going out of its way to be easily distributed OS

by baldfat 11y ago

When I read this it actually screamed OpenSUSE is a great alternative. I seriously can't see any other Distro going out of its way to be easily distributed OS with the https://susestudio.com/ https://susestudio.com/ and https://build.opensuse.org https://build.opensuse.org for packages for SUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc...

akerro 11y ago
oS is really good, I think it gets too little attention and upvotes than it should. Their YaST system is really good and completely replaces Windows control panel, they provide support for old-packages, openSUSE search panel is something what most distributions need, so far I saw it deployed only for ArchLinux successfully.
pjmlp 11y ago
My last SuSE was 6.3. How is the overall OpenSuSE experience nowadays? Since I spend most of my time on Windows anyway, I ended up settling with Ubuntu for my netbook and VMs.
- baldfat 11y ago
  I really couldn't be happier with a Distro. It is super stable and easy to upgrade. This computer at work has been over 5 years of just sudo zypper dup after a one line command to rename the repos. The ability to install packages with https://build.opensuse.org https://build.opensuse.org is such a better system than ppa. For the last three years I use i3 (Tiled Window Manager) and works great on in VM at my Windows machines. Still sad to see so many people left due to the Microsoft deal and haven't come back to give it a try again. EDIT: If you use a command line package manager zypper is best in class. Fedora actually incorporated zypper features and code into its yum replacement.
  - iwwr 11y ago
    How does "build" and ppa compare to Fedora's "copr", if you know?
    - baldfat 11y ago
      OpenSUSE build's best feature is you can build for other Distros. So build it for SUSE, Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu even Arch and it works. Fedora(Redhat) has picked out two of OpenSUSE's best features, zypper and obs (https://opensuse.org https://opensuse.org). OBS (Open Build Service) was considered instead of re-inventing the wheel that is copr https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-September/188751.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-Septemb...

by baldfat 11y ago

akerro 11y ago

oS is really good, I think it gets too little attention and upvotes than it should. Their YaST system is really good and completely replaces Windows control panel, they provide support for old-packages, openSUSE search panel is something what most distributions need, so far I saw it deployed only for ArchLinux successfully.

pjmlp 11y ago

My last SuSE was 6.3. How is the overall OpenSuSE experience nowadays? Since I spend most of my time on Windows anyway, I ended up settling with Ubuntu for my netbook and VMs.

baldfat 11y ago
I really couldn't be happier with a Distro. It is super stable and easy to upgrade. This computer at work has been over 5 years of just sudo zypper dup after a one line command to rename the repos. The ability to install packages with https://build.opensuse.org https://build.opensuse.org is such a better system than ppa. For the last three years I use i3 (Tiled Window Manager) and works great on in VM at my Windows machines. Still sad to see so many people left due to the Microsoft deal and haven't come back to give it a try again. EDIT: If you use a command line package manager zypper is best in class. Fedora actually incorporated zypper features and code into its yum replacement.
- iwwr 11y ago
  How does "build" and ppa compare to Fedora's "copr", if you know?
  - baldfat 11y ago
    OpenSUSE build's best feature is you can build for other Distros. So build it for SUSE, Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu even Arch and it works. Fedora(Redhat) has picked out two of OpenSUSE's best features, zypper and obs (https://opensuse.org https://opensuse.org). OBS (Open Build Service) was considered instead of re-inventing the wheel that is copr https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-September/188751.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-Septemb...