Posted on 12/18/2024 4:31:42 AM PST by grundle
Over the last 2 years the famous Linux project has attacked and mass-banned non-Leftists. Now there's nobody left to run openSUSE.
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SUSE, SUSE, SUSE….. wasn’t that a Phil Collins song?
SUSE Linux is of German origin, its name being an acronym of “Software und System-Entwicklung” (software and systems development), and it was mainly developed in Europe. The first version appeared in early 1994, making SUSE one of the oldest existing commercial distributions.
Figures those weenies went Woke. The people who were into it all looked and acted like Deiter and friends from Sprokets (Mike Myers, SNL)
First German SUSE Conference, Ludwigshafen, Deutschland, 1994
Eh - Wife is on Mint, no problems but she’s pretty basic. Firefox, recipes, music on the machine. If she needs anything strange/weird I get to do it.
My machines are FreeBSD. Also used it at work. Did a fair amount of instrumentation programming to monitor and test systems I was responsible for.
The BSDs are pretty stable. Linux is the Wild Wild West. Both have advantages, depending on what you’re up to.
Longest uptime I ever had was 487 days on a Slackware machine, years ago, with no UPS. Probably more a tribute to the power reliability.
If they have produced anything of value download it now. They are doomed.
And, good riddance.
“I’ve been burned a few times with the zeal to upgrade.”
Yeah, it is very un-Linux of them to start doing the same thing MS does and render our equipment obsolete forcing us to buy newer equipment. That is just not a trait of Linux, it is a trait of MS to pull that tactic. They are slowly creeping towards the proprietary MS model. I am personally not going to put up with this scam.
I am going to move to rolling distros instead even if I have to play with the window dressing and apps myself. Heck with them, I’m not playing the MS style game again. That game is one of the main reasons I dumped MS in the first place. That whole mess between Win7 and Win10 was enough for me...
What really makes me mad is when the new versions are nothing but a new group of apps packaged. No need for a whole new distro version just because one new app is packaged with it and that is the only change. I can just go add that app if I want it. No need for a whole new version centered around just one new app available. Mint is getting bad about this. Even more so than the Ubuntu it is based on.
go to one of
https://www.linuxmint.com/mirrors.php/download.php
pick 19.3, stable version, then the 32 bit
There appears to be some earlier versions on archive.org, but I'm suspicious of user uploaded software on that site
Thank you, yes I knew about those. But 19.0 is when they started to have problems. The 18.3 was hard to beat, still is, and it had the good installer before they screwed that up. Just have to upgrade the FF version because some sites don’t like it.
ive got 18.3 on a dvd- ive goen to 21.3 though but do still have the old isntall cd of 18.3
I got started out playing with some of the early distros, but I adopted Linux with RH5 and stuck with Redhat for quite a while. But now I am a Mint man. Everything just works.
Leftists/democrats have ruined many business’s like comics, sci-fi books, movies and tv shows etc etc. with their intolerance. Liberals are not liberal.
I use Mint and for many years was using RH6.
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