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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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