OpenSUSE
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| Developer: | Novell |
| OS family: | Linux/BSD |
| Source model: | "Open" source |
| Project status: | Test bed for Novell |
| Last stable release: | 11.1 |
| Kernel type: | Hot and chewy |
| License: | GPL |
- This article is about openSUSE. You may be actually looking for Mandriva. Yes, they do look the same.
openSUSE is more than just a man. He is a legend. A rebel. A business genius. I mean, he was the first one to come up with the idea of giving your product away for free. (Not counting Red Hat before they stinged out and made Fedora. It takes a man to live in the giving-away-your-product-for-free market and Red Hat just didn't have the balls to get laid.)
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[edit] The Offer
openSUSE is revolutionary in that it supports many standards just forgotten by the wider *nix community. A good example of this is the window manager, KDE. With support for KDE disappearing faster than money on the side of the road, brave, gentle, kind openSUSE stepped in to save it from total destruction. Noticably the new opensuse is the greatest opensuse ever. ( opensuse11.1 ) openSUSE features YaST, which was the inspiration for Debian's Advanced Package Manager, or apt. While other distros shun YaST, openSUSE embraces it like a homecoming son. Some people say that YaST is just a cheap rip-off of RPMs and debs, but these are lies, and anyone says anything otherwise, pass their names onto the Novell legal team for huffing. Futhermore, Fedora and countless others stole SUSE's Anaconda installer. Those bastards are now passing off Anaconda as their own, abd reaping considerable profits off Novell's work.
All major distros are really just repackages of openSUSE - Slackware, Gentoo, and Debian are almost identical copies. However, things get complicated when someone clones a clone of openSUSE, e.g. Ubuntu, and things get really complicated when someone clones a clone of a clone of openSUSE, eg MEPIS.
[edit] Name
before there was openSUSE there was SuSE Linux and before that there was S.u.S.E. . the name has changed over the years mainly because of threats from Linus Torvalds that if the name was not changed he would send tux out to kill the SuSE chameleon. There is currently a movement by Richard M. Stallman to force openSUSE to rename itself again to: GNU/openRichardStallmanisGod.
[edit] The Catch
When one uses openSUSE, they must sign an extensive, highly modified version of the GPL, which essentially involves signing their soul over to Novell, Inc., and extends a license to all Novell customers to kiss Microsoft's ass on the dotted line.
[edit] List of openSUSE Innovations
- Yet Another Shut-up Tool, AKA YAST. Designed to shrink hard drives more efficiantly than even windows.
- Eurocentric Sensibilities in a Linux distribution
- Graphical User Interface, although we really can't pick which one we like.
- High level language development
- Command Line Interface which may or may not work
- Time Sharing between applications, so that your apps can have Vacations provided on Timeshare
- Preemptive Multitasking
- OpenFirewall(c)
- Sliced Bread
