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 12:57:46 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <585c65b7-7303-695c-3aa3-c7d67e317bbd@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="536247"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63091 On Thu, 26 Dec 2024, 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/ Yes, EQT seems to be the current owner. Strange! I could have bet I heard rumours about them selling it to a UK private equity company, but maybe the deal didn't happen in the end. When I was working there, they had a great retirement plan. 20% of your on target earnings (regardless of it you met your target or not) they put away in an retirement account for you. The only company I heard that had a better plan was Oracle where the figure was 30%. > 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.