10.24.07
Yes, SUSE is No Longer a Golden Standard
It may never have been
Some readers, particularly those who are here to defend or apologise for Novell [1], wish to insist that nobody ever gives up on SUSE. So here is a brand-new example from yesterday:
Goodbye OpenSuse, Hello Ubuntu
I used to think that OpenSuse is the most complete, most good-looking, and most secure Linux distro that I prefer to employ it on my main workstation. Then version 10.3 came, and my love for OpenSuse quickly evaporated.
There are many more examples, e.g. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Since there’s strong resistance to arguments that SUSE has an image problem which is inherited from Novell, maybe we ought to highlight more such stories.
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.
lalala said,
October 26, 2007 at 7:05 am
You know very well that I never insisted that “no one ever gives up on SUSE”. Why do you have to lie?
Roy Schestowitz said,
October 26, 2007 at 9:58 am
It was sort of like ‘figure of speech’. I wasn’t referring to particular individuals. I had in mind some people in a newsgroup where I post regularly and I used to be a SuSE stickler myself (before the deal). At the time, PCLOS, Ubuntu and Mandriva, for example, were not in the same state.