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
>
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