AMD Backs openSUSE with Huge New Infrastructure 117
apokryphos writes "AMD has helped sponsor the progress of openSUSE with leading-edge hardware and development expertise. "AMD is helping to ensure that the openSUSE Build Service continues to be an important collaboration and development platform for developers of all distributions," said Terri Hall, AMD vice president of Commercial Systems Marketing. Are these continued announcements of huge support from large OEMs an indication of a new era?"
Re:How is the build service different from apt (Score:1, Informative)
Maybe something about the name wasn't clear? Perhaps you should read about the BUILD SERVICE [opensuse.org] then.
The obvious benefit for end users becomes that regardless of what you use for package management, if the package maintainer opts to use the openSUSE build service, you can point your package management software - ZDM, YaST, apt-get, synaptic, etc - at the repositories on the build service servers and not *have* to search for them.
The obvious benefit for a package maintainer is that they don't have to maintain a compile farm of different architectures to actually build the packages across multiple distributions. The build service has that and does the build for you.
Re:Leading Edge (Score:2, Informative)
Re:How is the build service different from apt (Score:5, Informative)
You missed the part where it's a build service for developers. If you are a developer and have used or looked at their tools and interface, you'll find it will save you a lot of time, hassle and resources - write your software, upload it, and have it packaged and readily available for multiple distributions on multiple architectures. Your package has dependencies that have been updated by their developers? No problem, the service will automatically trigger to rebuild your package using the updated dependencies. Read more here [opensuse.org].
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Re:microsoft connection? (Score:3, Informative)
In addition on my laptop with opensuse I was able to fix X11 from a graphical interface when the config file was actually deleted (Sax2), and setup the wlan card for a WPA2 wireless network in runlevel 3, all without editing config files.
I'm really hoping that more distros write systems like Yast or adopt it (its GPL).
Re:To AMD: (Score:2, Informative)
it is called fglrx.