[Colchester] The state of OpenSUSE

[Stewart Larner]

Im still a big debian centos ubuntu user here.

VMWare is the way forward for servers these days. Makes managing it much
easier.

Stewart

On 4 September 2018 at 01:11, Chris Pritchard via Colchester <
colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> 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
> *To:* colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> *Cc:* Wayland Sothcott
> *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.
> --
> Thanks,
> James Pain
>
>
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