SUSE is the leading independent Enterprise Open Source company, founded in 1992. Pioneer in software-defined infrastructure and beyond. More than 90% of SAP HANA deployments and more than two-thirds of the Fortune Global 100 companies worldwide trust SUSE.
Never seen it used nor mentioned anywhere. Maybe they don’t have a user interface and are just used on servers or infrastructure (whatever “software-defined infrastructure” means)? That would explain why governments still use Microsoft (and increasingly fruits).
One of their big selling points back then and now is YAST. A GUI tool for the complete administration of a Linux system. And not some pseudo tool that will break as soon as you do something manually. No, it works very well with the rest of the system.
SUSE is one of the oldest distributions still in common use today. Like Slackware and Debian old.
SuSE is one of the two major enterprise Linux distributions, with RedHat being the other. I would assume servers make up the bulk of their business, but they provide desktops too.
RedHat is probably better known to most end-users, due to their Fedora community distribution, and their heavy involvement in Gnome.
SuSE’s community distribution is openSUSE
EDIT: Fittingly, the very top of their website says “Make your old Windows 10 PC fast and secure again!” and links to https://endof10.org/
Tumbleweed was such a great choice for me when getting started with Linux. The enterprise support has benefits, I found specific rpm packages for problems I was having with a printer and a remote desktop client. And Yast is great to have for a Linux noob.
Maybe you’ve heard of Novell, the American company that bought SUSE in the early 2000s and then eventually sold it off. They were kind of big in the 2000s.
After many more mergers and acquisitions SUSE is (for now) back under European ownership.
Microsoft and Apple both use a sly tactic of offering the OS for cheap, and some products for cheap, but with the express intention that everything is so interlinking you can’t replace just one thing, you have to replace it all.
Which is too much time and effort for most governments
Wow, never heard of them.
https://www.nordicmind.com/suse/
Never seen it used nor mentioned anywhere. Maybe they don’t have a user interface and are just used on servers or infrastructure (whatever “software-defined infrastructure” means)? That would explain why governments still use Microsoft (and increasingly fruits).
One of their big selling points back then and now is YAST. A GUI tool for the complete administration of a Linux system. And not some pseudo tool that will break as soon as you do something manually. No, it works very well with the rest of the system.
SUSE is one of the oldest distributions still in common use today. Like Slackware and Debian old.
SuSE is one of the two major enterprise Linux distributions, with RedHat being the other. I would assume servers make up the bulk of their business, but they provide desktops too.
RedHat is probably better known to most end-users, due to their Fedora community distribution, and their heavy involvement in Gnome.
SuSE’s community distribution is openSUSE
EDIT: Fittingly, the very top of their website says “Make your old Windows 10 PC fast and secure again!” and links to https://endof10.org/
Its also a linux OS for business, theres an open variant for home pc use aswell: https://www.opensuse.org/
Tumbleweed was such a great choice for me when getting started with Linux. The enterprise support has benefits, I found specific rpm packages for problems I was having with a printer and a remote desktop client. And Yast is great to have for a Linux noob.
You would have heard of them a lot if you were a computer nerd. You must just be one of the common folk.
Maybe you’ve heard of Novell, the American company that bought SUSE in the early 2000s and then eventually sold it off. They were kind of big in the 2000s.
After many more mergers and acquisitions SUSE is (for now) back under European ownership.
Mostly they use it due to vendor lock-in tbh
Microsoft and Apple both use a sly tactic of offering the OS for cheap, and some products for cheap, but with the express intention that everything is so interlinking you can’t replace just one thing, you have to replace it all.
Which is too much time and effort for most governments