And SUSE?

Posted Sep 21, 2010 4:53 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Mageia - a Mandriva fork by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Mageia - a Mandriva fork

What's the equivalent place/places for OpenSUSE? (In case I decide to jump ship, availability of "underground" repositories is one deciding factor in picking a distro)

And SUSE?

Posted Sep 21, 2010 19:40 UTC (Tue) by dmacvicar (guest, #55231) [Link] (1 responses)

Packages and images/products are created by the community in the most advanced "self-serving" build service available (including web front end as well as command line tools). It can build not only for openSUSE but also for Mandriva, Fedora, Debian, etc. The resulting packages, repositories and images are searchable. Also they can be accessed as raw repos. The Packman project contains multimedia pieces that can't go into the openSUSE hosted build service. And, worth to mention, you can also create your own spins/derivates with SUSE Studio and even boot them in your web browser.

And SUSE?

Posted Sep 24, 2010 6:34 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

you can also create your own spins/derivates with SUSE Studio and even boot them in your web browser.

Yes, SUSE Studio is fun (addictive, even...). Actually, it is the only way I have tasted SUSE so far, playing with creating a custom one-CD distribution. The boot in browser feature does not work too well if your keyboard does not have U.S. layout, and also is jerky, so I have not used it lately. But a nice demo anyway.