Re: Linux upgrade.

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.

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openSUSE (not OpenSUSE) Tumbleweed is loosely upstream of SLE, and SLE is the basis (package compatible) of Leap.
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The next SLE has been delayed for about two years, I think. The new design is taking longer than they thought.
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https://news.opensuse.org/2024/10/07/leap-16-0-prealpha/
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There were talks of using containers, but I'm unsure of the name.
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"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)."
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https://www.suse.com/c/revolutionizing-linux-distributions-with-an-adaptable-linux-platform/
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https://www.suse.com/c/suse-salp-raises-the-bar-on-confidential-computing/
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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! =)