[Colchester] The state of OpenSUSE

[Wayland Sothcott]

Hello James,

Many years ago I replaced a Windows NT server with a new Dell running 
SUSE installed by Dell. It was pretty good but I did have to do some 
work setting up SAMBA and Email and MySQL.

A couple of years ago they wanted to replace the server as it was old 
and had needed hardware repairs to keep it going. So we did the same 
thing again, ordered from Dell with SUSE installed. However this time 
Dell did not install SUSE but printed us a licence and supplied the 
machine blank with no install disk.

I struggled and eventually got SUSE installed and RAID drivers loaded 
but I still had a heap of work ahead of me to set it up. I struggled 
with that too.

I had been spoiled by mostly building servers using ClearOS. When you 
build a ClearOS server you can chose any options you want at build time 
and add to them at any time after. The whole thing is then easily 
managed via it's web interface just like a router is.

So I formatted the Dell and installed ClearOS. I had to get the right 
RAID drivers but after that it was simple.

In the past SUSE was an amazing distro, now it's just meh. I don't see 
any point in using it. Maybe someone can say why it's good.

In my opinion Ubuntu is probably the best all round but with privacy 
problems therefore Mint is better since it's Ubuntu goodness with all 
the bad stuff left out.


On 03/09/18 22:22, James Pain via Colchester wrote:
> Looking for anyone with experience of using OpenSUSE to share their 
> opinions of it; especially why they chose it.
>
> About 15 years ago, in an electronics class, a knowledgable looking 
> fellow (judged by beard length alone) gave me about 4 CD’s with a 
> green charmilion on and the strange phrase OpenSUSE. This was my only 
> interaction with the distro.
>
> Always been fascinated by why he thought it was THE distro to beat 
> distros, in terms of desktop/ casual end user use. All I know about it 
> is that it’s German...I think.
>
> Let me know your thoughts in terms of community, support, updates, and 
> development.
> -- 
> Thanks,
> James Pain
>
>

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