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I would like to make a small connection. Novell bought SUSE in 2003 when they were losing business. They continued lose business while SUSE grew, so they tried

by ewzimm 13y ago

I would like to make a small connection. Novell bought SUSE in 2003 when they were losing business. They continued lose business while SUSE grew, so they tried to squeeze maximum profits out of SUSE by laying off a lot of their staff and making a marketing/patent deal with Microsoft. They still ended up having to sell out. SUSE is still going strong thanks to a great community.

Mikeb85 13y ago
> SUSE is still going strong thanks to a great community. And $225 million in yearly revenue doesn't hurt... Personally, openSUSE has always been my favourite distro. A bit sentimental perhaps, my first Linux was SUSE 6 back in the day, running 13.1 now. So fast and so flexible...
- ewzimm 13y ago
  SUSE has done a great job maintaining its projects, and I especially like how they focus on building things that are useful to anyone rather than just themselves. With the recent troubles between Ubuntu and KDE, I wonder if Kubuntu will be able to maintain its status as the leading KDE distribution.
  - Mikeb85 13y ago
    Yup. SUSE Build Service is IMO the best app of it's kind, I love SUSE Studio, and SUSE's Imagewriter is by far the best utility for writing bootable USB sticks... Honestly, if Kubuntu disappeared tomorrow I don't think it would be a bad thing, KDE users still have SUSE, Archlinux, etc... Edit - And of course SUSE is amongst the top contributors towards KDE, Gnome, Libre Office, and many other open-source projects, certainly contributing more than Canonical and often more than Red Hat...
    - ewzimm 13y ago
      I have used openSUSE on my desktop before, and I am running it in a VM again. 13.1 looks great. I love how they cater their GUI to power users and include quick access to things like virtualization. They also include FreeType 2.5, which I otherwise have to install manually. So far it isn't better enough than my own customized desktop to switch, but if things get worse between KDE and Canonical, I'll definitely switch my laptop OS.

by ewzimm 13y ago

Mikeb85 13y ago

> SUSE is still going strong thanks to a great community. And $225 million in yearly revenue doesn't hurt... Personally, openSUSE has always been my favourite distro. A bit sentimental perhaps, my first Linux was SUSE 6 back in the day, running 13.1 now. So fast and so flexible...

ewzimm 13y ago
SUSE has done a great job maintaining its projects, and I especially like how they focus on building things that are useful to anyone rather than just themselves. With the recent troubles between Ubuntu and KDE, I wonder if Kubuntu will be able to maintain its status as the leading KDE distribution.
- Mikeb85 13y ago
  Yup. SUSE Build Service is IMO the best app of it's kind, I love SUSE Studio, and SUSE's Imagewriter is by far the best utility for writing bootable USB sticks... Honestly, if Kubuntu disappeared tomorrow I don't think it would be a bad thing, KDE users still have SUSE, Archlinux, etc... Edit - And of course SUSE is amongst the top contributors towards KDE, Gnome, Libre Office, and many other open-source projects, certainly contributing more than Canonical and often more than Red Hat...
  - ewzimm 13y ago
    I have used openSUSE on my desktop before, and I am running it in a VM again. 13.1 looks great. I love how they cater their GUI to power users and include quick access to things like virtualization. They also include FreeType 2.5, which I otherwise have to install manually. So far it isn't better enough than my own customized desktop to switch, but if things get worse between KDE and Canonical, I'll definitely switch my laptop OS.