On 06/14/2017 01:07 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
I also look toe the fabulous documentation that ARCH produces, which I often have to read and interpret when the equivalent for Suse is missing.
Maybe a change is in order.
Nah, Just mix and match as your needs require. I've run my servers on Arch since (2009?) I have a mix of drives for my laptop both openSuSE and Arch (and a SlackWare too). I have Debian on the Raspberry and Ubuntu in Win10, After running SuSE/openSuSE, I ran Arch for the daily driver with Trinity as the desktop until I ran out of time to continue fighting gcc/glibc changes as the sole builder of Trinity on Arch. Even when I was driving on Arch, I always had an openSuSE drive for the daily driver as well. When I ran out of time to build TDE, I went back to suse and have been absolutely satisfied and impressed with the KDE3 build and the gradual transition to systemd (even though it still takes 30 seconds for my wireless to initialize on boot). I've kept all the servers on Arch, for the primary benefit of the rolling release and never having to set aside a block of time to upgrade. I don't think I've missed any suse installs (except by choice of not needing to reload for the release +1) If I recall it started with 7.0 (Air), after coming from Mandy when 7.0 was released, then 8.0, 8.2, 9.0, 9.2 (that was the time when .odd were primarily development and .even the releases), but then 10.0, 10.3 (.odd no longer meant development), 11.0, 11.4, 13.1, 42.2 (the jump doesn't indicate awayness, just some screwball decision to jump on the 'my number is bigger bandwagon' -- no doubt the brainchild of a 20-something) Since 11.0 was May 2008, I started with Arch about 6 months later (that is one thing I *can* thank KDE4 for). And since then, the versions I've run of Arch are -- just Arch... Both have strengths and weaknesses. One of SuSE's strength has always been the community -- this list. While volume (and new ringed development strategies) dictated the split from the true community opensuse@opensuse.org list to opensuse-{factory,packaging,...,younameit}, opensuse wins that category hands down. (the arch mailing list is intentionally low-volume, user-help, which is good, is handled in their forum) If I have new hardware, need current upstream release software or need to read a current well-written reference on how to use or configure, in depth, package Y, Arch wins out. For point and click install and management tools, opensuse shines. If you do it from the cli, there is a lot to be said for the Arch pacman, makepkg, minimalist KISS philosophy. Throw in the fact that apt-get and dpkg are more than usable as well on Debian and Ubuntu, you round out the mix. Under the hood, there isn't a whole lot of difference in what Linux is. It just boils down to the distro philosophy, the community, and talented developers to keep a firm hand on the wheel and keep things moving forward. Even VMware is just Linux under the hood (and talk about older kernels...). So, time for a change? -- no... Time to broaden your Linux horizons -- that's always a good bet ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org