Time for a Geeko remix: openSUSE is looking for a new logo

Linux distro openSUSE this week parked its electric scooter outside the marketing boutique as it pursues a brand that somehow reflects the paradigm shift in its own not-so-corporate journey. In a daring escape from the past, the familiar SUSE Chameleon icon, affectionately known as Geeko, may well be replaced by something more …

[Anonymous Coward]

My favourite is the gecko humping a Magic TrackPad.

^ nuff said.

[Evil Auditor]

Re: My favourite is the gecko humping a Magic TrackPad.

I thought the gecko was clapping a rounded-corner square. Still, also my favourite.

[Doctor Syntax]

A hat coloured Geeko green.

[dippy1]

chameleon......

Change the colour......as a chameleon would.....

[Anonymous Coward]

Priorities

"... as it pursues a brand that somehow reflects the paradigm shift in its own not-so-corporate journey"

So the openSUSE team decided that, in the light of openSUSE Leap 15 coming to an end with no real successor in sight, an immutable distro (Leap Micro) which is also a dead end, and no real clear path for what comes when SUSE brings out ALP (the successor to SUSE Enterprise Linux 15), which no longer will have a desktop version, the most important thing to do is to change the logo?

Seriously?

[Gene Cash]

Re: Priorities

Like the Titanic, they're slowly sinking without a clue, so their best idea is to furiously rearrange the deck chairs.

Seriously though... what does SUSE have to offer as a distro these days? What distinguishes them? Why would I choose them over, say, Devuan?

[Smirnov]

Re: Priorities

"Seriously though... what does SUSE have to offer as a distro these days? What distinguishes them? Why would I choose them over, say, Devuan?"

SUSE, like Red Hat, offers an enterprise grade Linux distribution called SUSE Enterprise Linux (SEL), supported by enterprise-level support. SEL also happens to be the prime platforms for a number of software packages like SAP.

SUSE also is, like Red Hat, one of the main contributor to the Linux ecosystem (even more so than say Canonical, which actually contributes less than even Microsoft).

Devuan, well, is pretty much the complete opposite of SEL, and mostly built for people who hate modern Linux and prefer an OS stuck in 2008 or so.

Besides, the article is about openSUSE (the community which builds free/non-commercial openSUSE distros, based on SEL packages) and not SUSE (the enterprise Linux vendor).

[Anonymous Coward]

Lack of intelligence

Marketing people really aren't very bright, are they?

If you've got an established brand that isn't essentially universally hated, throwing it away is always going to be counterproductive.

But the mentally slow marketing people need to feel like they're doing something, so they do it anyway.

[Anonymous Coward]

Quality article picture..

.. sticking the beast in a blender.

:)