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I used to have SUSE before, but nowadays its either RHEL or Ubuntu/debian. Its such a shame that, there is barely any new players in the server os market.
by ram_rar 8y ago
I used to have SUSE before, but nowadays its either RHEL or Ubuntu/debian. Its such a shame that, there is barely any new players in the server os market.
- alex_duf 8y agoI think it boils down to the fact that not that many innovations are coming from the distribution itself. It used to be true, especially when it came to recognizing hardware or simplifying install, but nowadays most hardware is recognized and most distro's install is simple (except Arch, but I like arch, so go figure). I suppose the biggest innovation in the past few years have been in terms of virtualization, and they were barely dependent on the distribution as most of the work was done upstream on the linux Kernel. So it's hard to be a newcomer and have strong selling points. Maybe the next generation of kernel programmed in type safe, memory safe languages would be interesting?
- jason_slack 8y agoI had thought about trying to implement some sort of bindings around the kernel to allow devs to use Go or Rust. Kotlin might not be bad either. When I was learning via LFS I felt like there is still a lot of innovation that can be done. I remember back in 2000 I attended a Linux World Expo and it was amazing. It felt great to see all these companies dedicating resources to making Linux better. Now, I don't feel like it is quite the same anymore. There were companies inventing all sort of solutions from large scale server management to desktop apps to, to, to. Companies gave out stuffed toys. I still have a SUSE branded lizard, a Fedora and 5-6 more.