SUSE doubles down on AI and Multi-Linux Support to prove it's still in the game

Veteran Linux wrangler SUSE confirmed its place aboard the AI train at its Orlando SUSECON25 shindig, where announcements were plentiful regarding the tech industry's latest obsession. There was also news for administrators charged with maintaining a diverse range of Linux distributions from the datacenter to the edge. SUSE …

[Doctor Syntax]

Doubling down on AI makes me wonder whether it still is in the game.

[Tron]

I'd like a system-wide 'AI Off' option.

Not sure about the MS direct access either.

[Gene Cash]

Unfortunately, they use systemd

So the sooner they can fade to irrelevance, the better.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Unfortunately, they use systemd

Sadly, systemd is not the threat it once was.

At the moment, it is AI with chips as every menu item.

Can we have a top distro release an "AI free" version. The AI Hype is getting stupid, much like the incessant lies coming out of No 47's gob.

[jaypyahoo]

Re: Unfortunately, they use systemd

Fortunately we have AI free BSDs we can use. I doubt Linux will go AI free.

[PhilipN]

Will re-visit S.u.S.E.

Fond memories of a door-stop size case with - was it 4 or 6 CD's inside?

[Addanc]

Re: Will re-visit S.u.S.E.

x6 CD, still have case with cover dating back 1998.

[cjcox]

S.u.S.E. customer for a long time

I don't think the mainframe was the beginning of SLES. But was early on. Scott Handy described the early days like this: IBM wanted a Linux distro on the mainframe. Red Hat came with papers and lawyers, S.u.S.E. dropped an install off.

Anyhow, SUSE was very very enterprise focused. While Red Hat was focused on hosting websites, SUSE went beyond with large scale (even on Intel side) and supporting concepts to ensure dynamic changes could be done without "reboot". They were also first to embrace offering a Xen install with SLES as the Dom0. This was laughed at by Red Hat at the time (telling the world it was a huge mistake), but later that same year, they quickly rushed out a "major" minor point release update to put Xen out there. But they also made the huge mistake of making that the "default". So, if you were running RHEL(AS) 4.5 using the default install, you were really running in Dom0 the entire time (you won't see too many of these out there anymore, so, perhaps embarrassment avoided, but for a bit, definitely made Red Hat look... well... stupid).

Still a big SUSE (openSUSE) user today. While they might not be as good as they were in the beginning, they are still a lot more enterprise focused than the competition.

[Bebu sa Ware]

Re: S.u.S.E. customer for a long time

So, if you were running RHEL(AS) 4.5 using the default install, you were really running in Dom0 the entire time

I always wondered about a half dozen RH machines I inherited that were built this way. The owners† weren't exactly tech literate and (para) virtualisation was pretty new on the x86 platform.

_{† the GUI applications they used were only available for SGI Irix (Unix) or RH/SuSE Linux.}

[wolfetone]

Re: S.u.S.E. customer for a long time

I had a new laptop for home work and thought I'd give openSuSE a go again after 10 years. It's so familiar, like nothing really had changed, and I like that. Really enjoying it after 5 years of Linux Mint which in itself is good but I think it's a shame openSuSE is over looked.

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

Well, that settles it for me: I'll not be going back to SUSE again in this lifetime. They're following Microsquishy down the "AI Agent" hole. Screw that!

[BasicReality]

I've got a 6 year old Darter Pro from System76. After running Pop_OS! for years, I decided to change. Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, SUSE, EndeavourOS. Finally settled on EndeavourOS, but out of all of them, SUSE was the only one that I could not get my Brother printer working from.