Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 15th Jun 2008 21:11 UTC
"Of all the community distributions, probably the least known is openSUSE. After two and a half years, the distro is not only still working out details about how its community operates - including how its governing board is elected - but also struggling to come out of the shadow of its corporate parent Novell, much as Fedora has emerged from its initial dominance by Red Hat. With the pending release of openSUSE 11.0, community manager Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier suggests that the distribution is finally starting to get the recognition it deserves. In the middle of preparations for the new release, Brockmeier took the time to talk with Linux.com about the priorities within the community and its relation with the larger world of free software."
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2008-06-18
I agree with your assessment of OpenSuse's implementation of KDE. It is very polished, although Fedora 9 seems equally polished so far as well. Maybe I'm just a sucker for customizing the "K" logo on the launcher button but it does seem I get far fewer KDE crashes in both OpenSuse and F9 than I do in Linspire/Freespire's KDE implementation.
OpenSuse also has a repo. system that I find similar to Ubuntu's which makes finding packages a breeze.
The next server I slap together at home I plan on using OpenSuse. Yes I know the console only one Ubuntu has is good and I've used it before but OpenSuse has included some very nice tools for administration that just makes things simpler.