[Colchester] The state of OpenSUSE

[Chris Pritchard]

I use Gentoo on my server, but I'm a masochist

Chris Pritchard

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From: Colchester <colchester-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk> on behalf of Wayland Sothcott via Colchester <colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, September 3, 2018 11:00:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [Colchester] The state of OpenSUSE

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.
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Thanks,
James Pain



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