I think that was it: http://www.informationweek.com/software/operating-systems/microsoft-back-in-bed-with-suse-linux/d/d-id/1099170?
The moral of the story, if your selling an OS, don't sell out to your perceived competition if you want to maintain respect. On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 09:15:46 Joseph Apuzzo wrote: > > Since we are talking about Linux distros..... > > > > What ever happened to SuSE Linux? > > https://www.suse.com/ > > http://www.opensuse.org/en/ > > They're #6 on Distrowatch and they had a release (13.1) in November. > I loaded 12.1 in a VM a little over a year ago while I was doing some > testing > and found it relatively pleasing. I also occasionally load a OpenSuSE > LiveCD > when they have new test KDE releases so that I can "see what's coming". > > Novell has had controversy concerning their patent agreement with Microsoft > (which was renewed in 2011), after which Novell seemed to become > out-of-favor > with open source advocates. > > OpenSuSE seems to be soldiering on AFAICT. None of the friends I speak to > are > running it today AFAIK, mostly because those that were transitioned off of > SuSE during the time it was still commercial. The only particular quirk > with > OpenSuSE is having to use (or work around) the YaST configuration tool. > > -- Chris > > -- > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Feb 5 - Nginx > Mar 5 - March Meeting: 11th Anniversary > Apr 2 - Google App Engine > -- Joe /** ** Joseph T Apuzzo ** GPFS SME (Linux, Windows, AIX), Linux LPI-c1 ** http://www.linkedin.com/in/japuzzo/ **/
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