The Spring 2010 Linux Distro Scorecard (Part 2)

“”Zonker” picks up right where he left off yesterday. In this
Spring’s Linux Distro Scorecard, he provides brief reviews of
Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint, Mandriva, openSUSE, Slackware and
Ubuntu. Today, we get his take on the final three, and he delivers
the payoff – the Linux Distro Scorecard – which can be a handy
reference during the months ahead. openSUSE

“The openSUSE distribution is sponsored by Novell, my former
employer. (Just in case that wasn’t clear from the bio.) As a
result, it’s one of the distros I’m most familiar with and try to
be as objective as possible about.

“The project started life about five years ago when Novell
decided to open up SUSE Linux development. It’s the foundation of
SUSE Linux Enterprise, and it’s a good distro for people who want
to pay attention to SUSE Linux Enterprise development. openSUSE is
now developed fully in the open, and the tools behind it (the
openSUSE Build Service) are entirely open source. In fact, the
build service is being used by several other projects (like MeeGo)
and can be used to build packages for all major distros — not
just openSUSE.”

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