Talk:SUSE Linux

Improved, but..

I think its much improved for the results when you type "SUSE" into Wikipedia but most of this article reads like a poor translation from German it needs major clean-up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.153.162.173 (talk) 11:11, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

creation

I have created the article entitled SUSE Linux Distibutions in order to provide an up to date resource for SUSE linux. I am a firm advocator for SUSE and hope that the general wikipedian public agrees on this article becoming the proper article for SUSE Linux. As of now I am on SUSE IRC channels trying to get professionals to clean up this article. To vote on whether this should be main page leave a yes or no comment under this comment --H a m m o 09:47, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I think you've mis-titled the article with a capital "D". Besides that, I don't understand what you mean by "this article becoming the proper article for SUSE Linux". Are you suggesting that SUSE Linux be deleted and replaced with the sub-topic of "distributions"? That's a bad idea. If you want to improve SUSE Linux, then improve that existing article. Or maybe I don't understand your goals here. --Ds13 15:44, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I don't think you understand that technically, SUSE Linux doesn't exist anymore. It is split up into other distributions. There is a product Novell sells caleld SUSE Linux, but as it acknowledges on the webpage, it is just a boxed copy of openSUSE. So if you can come up with a better solution! Also, this will make it easier to maintain information for each version more easily. Remember, every SUSE linux distro is very, alike, with few minor differences. There is no reason for one centralised place for all these SUSE articles, --H a m m o 08:24, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

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• Fixed this in the obvious way. Thanks for nuthin', bot. — brighterorange (talk) 17:58, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Merge

I think this article should be merged with SUSE Linux and SUSE Linux subsequently deleted.

There are already articles for:

• SUSE Linux distributions Provides a general overview of the SuSE Linux family of products/
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server The commercial server version of SuSE Linux.
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop The commercial desktop version of SuSE Linux
• openSUSE The community distribution from which SLES & SLED is derived.

I just don't see under where SUSE Linux falls under. It is redundant, confusing and un-needed.

I also propose, and volunteer to, expand the SuSE Linux Distributions article as some details are missing. E.g. SuSE Linux Retail Solution (SLRS) runs on many many retail/POS systems at many large retailers (IBM prefers SLRS as their solution for IBM POS hardware), etc. I think that's worthy of a mention. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.238.172.212 (talk) 21:51, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Name

I removed this unreferenced claim, put here an an example of how not to write an encyclopaedia!: "There is an unofficial rumour that the name is a tribute to the German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse" Widefox (talk) 10:10, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

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Advertising?

In my opinion, sentences like: "It is Novell's goal to market openSUSE as the best, easiest distribution for all users", while might be true, they provide no information (which distribution does not have this goal?) and are clearly non encyclopedic. They should be deleted.83.53.217.169 (talk) 00:32, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. Also, I tried SuSE in 1999 and it didn't work. It is an inferior product and I lost money for no use. --213.130.252.119 (talk) 20:24, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

I used SuSE since 1998 and it worked perfectly. Probably different hardware of different knowledge (at this time making Linux work was not that easy :-). Jdd (talk) 06:39, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

date format

• YYYY-MM-DD = ISO standard
• MM/DD/YYYY = US format
• DD.MM.YYYY = German format
• DD-MM-YYYY = articles date format, probably nothing common on earth...

--Alexander.stohr (talk) 19:45, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

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"no" German page

Why is there no link on the left side for the German page de:OpenSUSE?--Mideal (talk) 13:10, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

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News reports SUSE sold

https://betanews.com/2018/07/03/suse-linux-sold/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/02/linux_makes_suse_sold_for_a_cool_2535bn/ SUSE has been acquired from Micro Focus by private equity outfit EQT. Qwy47 (talk) 18:03, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

CPTN

Suddenly appears in the middle of the section headed The Attachmate Group takeover but it is not clear how the Attachmate and CPTN deal fit together. More explanation needed. 78.33.185.122 (talk) 23:55, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Seperate desktop and server distributions for openSUSE

the article goes out of it's way to mention the fact that openSUSE does not have separate desktop and server distributions, but if you go to the website https://get.opensuse.org/ it displays a separate desktop and server distribution front and center 2600:1700:4AA0:12A0:E9D1:4537:C6FE:4832 (talk) 06:53, 4 January 2023 (UTC)