Summary: OpenSUSE still under the microscope following SUSE's Microsoft patent deal

WE ARE still keeping abreast of the OpenSUSE project as it helps shape what becomes "Microsoft Linux" (SUSE) -- the distribution which is funded by Microsoft to bring revenue to Microsoft when some companies deploy GNU/Linux.

The word on many SUSE people's lips is still OSC, the OpenSUSE Conference. There is keysigning and cheese being planned by those who drive the project. There is almost nothing else going on (slow news week), except the OBS downtime, some new OBS packages, and perhaps the HOWTOs, yast2 vulnerabilities, and other Novell security problems. It has become rather apparent that for OpenSUSE to become mainstream again it will need to earn some respect from users it lost after Novell (and then SUSE) had signed Microsoft patent deals. ⬆