alt Hacker NewsNobody uses SuseLinux any more. If SUSE gets 6 billion dollars and a private equity firm gets nothing valuable, there's nothing wrong with that.
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> Nobody uses SuseLinux any more.
What gives you that impression? They had $700MM in revenue in 2022 and many HPC clusters run on Cray OS[1] (which is SLES).
> If SUSE gets 6 billion dollars
Not how sales work.
Maybe for your personal workstation this might be the experience you have. But from my experience for enterprise there is RHEL, Suse and maybe Ubuntu Pro. If you are an AWS Enterprise customer you might justify Amazon Linux
It's still quite popular with SAP shops here in Europe at least. And I could imagine that the strong anti-American sentiment in Europe plays in its favor.
Interesting. It's the only commercial distro I could ever stomach, in fact I really like it but don't use it, (because there's a non-commercial distro that I like much more). (Edit: my point was that it would feel like a real loss if it were to deteriorate)
By "nobody" I presume you mean you and your friends? From the article;
>> "More than 60% of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power some of their workloads, according to the company."
This is an Enterprise version of Linux, and unless you are in the enterprise space you're unlikely to come across it.
Also from the article; >> "The company generates about $800 million in revenue "
So again, this suggests that people are indeed using it.