AMD Backs openSUSE with Huge New Infrastructure

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?"

microsoft connection?

[datapharmer]

I'm curious about this sudden SUSE push and the recent deals with Novell and Microsoft. I'm curious as to what is going on behind the scenes... is Microsoft working on a linux GUI? Something even more sinister? Or perhaps it is just a coincidence... but then again I don't believe in those.

Re:microsoft connection?

[swokm]

I think everyone has to admit that if Novell plays their cards right, they have a real shot at eventually winning a large portion of the enterprise desktop as well as the back end. IMHO. I like SUSE quite a bit, anyway. And I think AMD sees that a possible low-power platform win over Intel (those'll be harder and harder to come by).

As for MS... they think of Vista as their linux GUI, don't they? ;) If I had that much money, I'd invest in ever competitor too... you never know.

BTW, made account to thank the OP for not linking to their blog about a magazine blurb about TFA. That gets old fast.

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Excellent Question!

[cyphercell]

I was just thinking the same thing, the past several days have been very dynamic in the way of licensing/FOSS in big business. We have sun, bittorrent, mysql, amd, proprietary AV systems, a DUI driver wins code, NewYorkCountryLawyer [slashdot.org], Dell with on-board virtualization, openSuse, and well I'm sure I'm missing something somewhere because /. has had a good story every couple of hours for a few days now. It's almost scary. Ooh, Linux kernel developers coming under fire for not paying enough attention to the desktop, too. Anyone know how Vista is doing these days?

Re:microsoft connection?

[Anonymous Coward]

I knew it was popular in Europe, especially Germany where it originated. Not sure to what extent though. That would be nice to have someone clarify.

I don't have any marketshare numbers or similar. I can only tell you my personal experience. I'm living in Germany and started using Linux in 1996. I know/knew many people also using Linux (especially in university) and until a few years ago nearly everybody of them used SuSE. It was kind of the standard, the default. I'm not sure I ever used a RedHat system, for example. I'm sure I never installed it. For me, it was kind of exotic. :)

In the last years, though, many people I know moved to Ubuntu (including myself). So if anything, the SuSE dominance has gotten quite a bit weaker in recent years. But that's all just personal, subjective observations, of course.