Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux upgrade. Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:42:53 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <47b5927b-009e-64b0-383b-0de6005cae2f@example.net> References: <676c7302@news.ausics.net> <9b186526-edd5-2a87-ea25-de228dcb6c9d@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="562793"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63097 On Thu, 26 Dec 2024, Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 2024-12-26 05:19, rbowman wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 03:40:38 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote: >> >>> On 2024-12-26, 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote: >>>> The death of OpenSUSE is that it's part of the IBM/RHEL vortex now, >>>> just like CentOS. Using it, you're basically an unpaid beta tester >>>> for IBM. Eventually they won't need that so much - and that entire >>>> distro family will just go away. >>> >>> Are you saying that RedHat has bought SUSE? >>> I see no reference to this in the Wikipedia articles about SuSE and >>> openSUSE. >> >> It's hard to keep track of the shell game from Novell to Attachmate to >> MicroFocus but I believe EQT AB has it now, at least the Enterprise. >> >> https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/german-software-firm-suse-be-taken- >> private-by-eqt-16-euros-per-share-2023-08-17/ >> >> I don't know if OpenSUSE is upstream of SLE like Rawhide/Fedora are >> upstream of RHEL. No particular reason but I missed the leap from 13.2 to >> Leap and eventually went to Fedora on that box. > > openSUSE (not OpenSUSE) Tumbleweed is loosely upstream of SLE, and SLE is the > basis (package compatible) of Leap. > > The next SLE has been delayed for about two years, I think. The new design is > taking longer than they thought. > > https://news.opensuse.org/2024/10/07/leap-16-0-prealpha/ > > > There were talks of using containers, but I'm unsure of the name. > > "Just for clarification SLFO, SUSE Linux Framework One, is the source pool > for SLES 16 and SL Micro 6.X. SLFO was previously known as Adaptable Linux > Platform (ALP)." > > > https://www.suse.com/c/revolutionizing-linux-distributions-with-an-adaptable-linux-platform/ > > https://www.suse.com/c/suse-salp-raises-the-bar-on-confidential-computing/ > > https://www.muylinux.com/2024/01/15/opensuse-leap-16-alp/ I was reading up on opensuse 16 yesterday and it seems that 16 will let you do container based read only root, and regular read/write root. Since I like to make modifications and not have to restart, I'll happily take the classic version. Seems like opensuse leap will live on for all of version 16 at least! =)