openSUSE, Now with More Open
At the top of the distribution table there are several big wigs. One of which is openSUSE. It wasn’t always “openSUSE” though, that is a more recent development. When the original German distro was first released in 1994 it was called “S.u.S.E”, which stood for “Software und System-Entwicklung”, or “Software and System Development” in English. With later releases it was shortened to just “SuSE”, and then later again to “SUSE Linux”.
It took some time for Novell to find its feet and garner community support for its products. Looking back however, they have become very successful at this and appear to be adopting more of a community orientated open source development model. Moving towards this new era, in 2007 Novell opened what has become known as the “openSUSE Online Build Service”. As the name suggests, this is a web based service which any developer can use to create packages not only for Novell products, but also for all other major distributions (yes, even Red Hat and Fedora!). Novell is hoping that it will become a central hub for future development in the free software community. Recently, the Linux Foundation decided to make it available through their developer network.
The build service itself however has other benefits.
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