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Re:If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free soft... by pjmlp on Monday November 23, 2015 @07:24AM (#10614182)
My first GNU/Linux experience was with Slackware 2.0 and I already knew Xenix, DG/UX and Aix by then. Since then I have tried all major distributions.

SuSE before it went enterprise, Mandrake before it lost support were the only real alternatives to Ubuntu in terms of consumer desktop experience.

Nowadays I only care it works as it is supposed to be, as I don't have the patience any longer to fiddle with configurations, and even Ubuntu has its own quirks that lead to weekend projects.

EDIT: Extra words due to copy-paste.

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Re:If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free soft... by baldfat on Monday November 23, 2015 @08:07AM (#10614335)
When I read this it actually screamed OpenSUSE is a great alternative.

I seriously can't see any other Distro going out of its way to be easily distributed OS with the https://susestudio.com/ and https://build.opensuse.org for packages for SUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc...

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Re:If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free soft... by pjmlp on Monday November 23, 2015 @08:29AM (#10614417)
My last SuSE was 6.3.

How is the overall OpenSuSE experience nowadays?

Since I spend most of my time on Windows anyway, I ended up settling with Ubuntu for my netbook and VMs.

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Re:If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free soft... by baldfat on Monday November 23, 2015 @09:15AM (#10614652)
I really couldn't be happier with a Distro. It is super stable and easy to upgrade. This computer at work has been over 5 years of just sudo zypper dup after a one line command to rename the repos.

The ability to install packages with https://build.opensuse.org is such a better system than ppa.

For the last three years I use i3 (Tiled Window Manager) and works great on in VM at my Windows machines. Still sad to see so many people left due to the Microsoft deal and haven't come back to give it a try again.

EDIT: If you use a command line package manager zypper is best in class. Fedora actually incorporated zypper features and code into its yum replacement.

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Re:If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free soft... by iwwr on Monday November 23, 2015 @01:54PM (#10616427)
How does "build" and ppa compare to Fedora's "copr", if you know?
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Re:If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free soft... by baldfat on Monday November 23, 2015 @02:41PM (#10616759)
OpenSUSE build's best feature is you can build for other Distros. So build it for SUSE, Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu even Arch and it works.

Fedora(Redhat) has picked out two of OpenSUSE's best features, zypper and obs (https://opensuse.org). OBS (Open Build Service) was considered instead of re-inventing the wheel that is copr https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-Septemb...

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Re:If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free soft... by akerro on Monday November 23, 2015 @08:11AM (#10614345)
oS is really good, I think it gets too little attention and upvotes than it should. Their YaST system is really good and completely replaces Windows control panel, they provide support for old-packages, openSUSE search panel is something what most distributions need, so far I saw it deployed only for ArchLinux successfully.
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