Commercial Linux distributor SUSE Linux is moving up into the clouds with a commercially supported release of its OpenStack cloud control-freak. SUSE Cloud, as the OpenStack distro is called, has been in preview since last October, and that particular preview build was based on the "Diablo" OpenStack 2011.3 running atop SUSE …

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Thursday 30th August 2012 06:55 GMT Anonymous Coward

What's In A Name

OpenStack Essex - only our colonial cousins would have thought naming anything Essex would give it credence.

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1. Thursday 30th August 2012 14:27 GMT captain veg
  
  Re: What's In A Name
  
  Isn't SuSE still based in Germany? Surely "Cologne" would be a better name.
  
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Thursday 30th August 2012 13:15 GMT mfritz0

openSuse_12.1

I personally use openSuSE_12.1 on my desktop, just switched over this year and was running Windows for over 10 years prior to that. Personally, I do so much more with SuSE than windows it's amazing. They have come a long way in the last ten years.

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1. Thursday 30th August 2012 14:31 GMT captain veg
  
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  Strangely enough, I have been using (open)SuSE for getting on for 10 years, but have recently been switching to Lubuntu. Relative to the other distributions, SuSE has been getting worse over time, IMO.
  
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  1. Friday 31st August 2012 08:56 GMT mfritz0
    
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    I've heard that too, but since I personally have only Windows to compare it too, I still believe there is more future with linux than with Windows. Unfortunately, not enough of the bandwagon is following along. I haven't yet tried Lubuntu, but an certainly looking forward to it after the disappointments I have had with Windows. It seems to me whenever something works well with Windows it gets replaced with something that is more comercialized and more expensive. Just look at the garbage being produced in Windows 8. My old Windows XP pro had better graphics and functionality in my opinion, and I'm not even going to discuss the problems I've had with Windows Vista. My son uses Windows 7 and he literally hates it. I can still hear him through his bedroom door pounding on the table and cursing at the software.
    
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