SUSE is a legal trap

Summary: A few updates on SUSE and OpenSUSE (aka "Microsoft Linux")

THE OPENSUSE project plans a "summit", which will of course be assisted in part by Microsoft funding, through SUSE the company. The project's leadership makes improvements by integrating other companies' work and OBS adds some features. The OpenSUSE project still supports both KDE and GNOME (latest versions) and based on the experience of some:

When I started this blog, I intended to make it my step by step log of the trials and fixes experienced in openSUSE so that it may be a benefit to others. However, when I first tried 12.1 with KDE it was such a terrible experience that I rolled my machines back to 11.4. But this time I went with Gnome instead of KDE; since I had experienced some of the speed improvements in the newer KDE I knew that rolling back would make it seem even worse than it really was. And in any event, I needed the experience with Gnome in order to help others. Indeed, I learned the Gnome way and it was good. Brilliant actually, we have a FANTASTIC Gnome implementation. But now, I have recently acquired a new (to me) laptop with which to be a little more risky and experiment on. So, after trying a few distros I have come back to openSUSE 12.1, but this time with Gnome 3. And I must say, it is fantastic.

OpenSUSE does come with a diversity of packages, but let's remember who develops GNOME 3. It's mostly Red Hat.

SUSE has generally become the sort of company which doesn't do much for GNU/Linux. It does, however, do a lot for Microsoft (notably taxing GNU/Linux). No matter how it's judged on technical grounds, SUSE harms software freedom and supporting it by usage is unwise. I sacrificed years of my life explaining to people why they should boycott Novell. Now that Novell is dead the job is not done because Microsoft provided the bribes through SUSE. In the next post I will provide a new example of what those bribes achieve. ⬆