2014 openSUSE Conference Focused on Subtle Improvements

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story imageoSC 14 , held April 24-28 in the lovely Mediterranean port town of Dubrovnik, Croatia , has come and gone . If you like openSUSE , expect more of the same. Don't expect any radical changes upcoming for this steady-and-predictable distro!

The conference focused on high level questions of packaging, approach, distro lifecycle management, and marketing. There were some interesting presentations on specific topics of interest as well, including [the following are all video links]:The rest of the presentations are available here [youtube], and conference photos are here .

SUSE has been my go-to distro since 2001. I'm raising a glass to the openSUSE team and hoping for more green!
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an excuse to try (Score: 2, Interesting)

by rocks@pipedot.org on 2014-05-09 19:46 (#1GJ)

I've always wanted to find an excuse to take Suse for a spin, but I've become such a fan of the Debian-style package management system that I've never got around to it...

Re: an excuse to try (Score: 2, Interesting)

by nightsky30@pipedot.org on 2014-05-09 21:37 (#1GM)

I've used openSUSE off and on over the passed decade or so v9.1-12.x. I was once a much bigger fan of theirs. I just ran into too many broken dependencies in their repos, and went elsewhere. I think the use of CentOS at work also contributed to the shift. Maybe I got tired of the bleeding edge. openSUSE isn't bad. I just think it needs some more polishing.

Re: an excuse to try (Score: 1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-09 21:46 (#1GN)

Looks like you were using it during the Novell years; not their best releases. I've been really happy with 12.3 and apparently 13.1 is pretty good too. My favorite distro - maybe of all time - dates back to 2003: SUSE 8.1. Awesomeness.

The Novell years weren't great for SUSE. Under Attachmate, things have improved in important ways.