5 Years After Microsoft Deal OpenSUSE Releases Hardly Celebrated

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2011-11-18 16:11:02 UTC
Modified: 2011-11-18 16:11:02 UTC

Christmas

Summary: Another quick look at coverage of OpenSUSE 12.1

OPENSUSE 12.1 has been out for a couple of days and it still does not receive coverage from the corporate press. There is review of the distribution by Swapnil Bhartiya at Muktware and few more reviews in Linux sites. There are benchmarks from Michael Larabel over at Phoronix (including boot performance) and some blog posts that qualify as news even though they are informal. A lot of the coverage comes from existing or former Novell staff (OpenSUSE community manager in this case) or Linux advocates such as Scott Merrill at TechCrunch, Sean at Server Watch, and staff at OS News.

SoftPedia just posts some screenshots and the OpenSUSE site moves on to other topics such as WebYaST. To quote:

So the benefit is to login on a target linux machine from a computer which

* has not to be a unix machine and * is without any VPN configuration stuff.

In summary, OpenSUSE enjoys none of the mainstream coverage it used to get. The OpenSUSE Boosters may not like to hear it, but it's true. ⬆

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Michael

2011-11-18 17:40:05

You hear about Ubuntu and Mint and not much else. Sadly, Linux on the desktop has not worked, at least in general.

With the desktop-as-web-portal, which is what it is becoming for many, desktop Linux has a new chance to shine - a limited capacity where it can compete as well or better than the competition.

5 Years After Microsoft Deal OpenSUSE Releases Hardly Celebrated

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