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They were a German company before being bought by Novell in 2004. I think the popularity dropped after the takeover in Europe. Now that they are completely dis
by bgwalter 1y ago
They were a German company before being bought by Novell in 2004. I think the popularity dropped after the takeover in Europe.
Now that they are completely disentangled again, let's hope they restore the popularity. It is a good distribution.
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- overfeed 1y ago> I think the popularity dropped after the takeover in Europe It wasn't the takeover, it was splitting SUSE linux into a paid stable/supported distro and a testing/community distro, like Red Hat had just done with RHEL/Fedora. Unlike Red Hat, SUSE didn't have the critical mass to force the community to be guinea pigs for paid customers, and it withered as folk switched to other distros, including the hot new entrant: ubuntu.
- rascul 1y agoPopularity dropped because of backlash from the controversial MS deal that Novell did with Suse in 2006.