It’s become clear to many that Red Hat’s recent missteps with CentOS and the availability of RHEL source code indicate that it’s fallen from its respected place as “the open organization.” SUSE seems to be poised to benefit from Red Hat’s errors. We connect the dots.

  • @Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
    36•5 months ago

    There’s always been the risk of confusion and openSUSE project seemed to have understood that SUSE could disallow the name at any moment. A name change does make sense for both. Especially now that even Leap might be distancing itself from SLE and whatnot.

    • Boxscape
      12•5 months ago

      A name change does make sense for both. Especially now that even Leap might be distancing itself from SLE and whatnot.

      Agreed, but GeekOS or whatever it was they had on that oSC slide … Cheesus, they can do better than that.

      Yeah, I get the mascot’s name is Geeko, so maybe that is where they’re getting GeekOS. But I think I read that the mascot has to go together with the name anyway.

      • @MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
        14•5 months ago

        Cheesus, they can do better than that

        On recent performance, no they can’t. I mean, they had the chance to use Driftwood and went with Slowroll.

      • fr0g
        2•5 months ago

        There is no “current proposal” at this point.

        • @pmk
          4•5 months ago

          What about the proposal to just drop the name openSUSE with no replacement? And let each distro just be called Tumbleweed, Leap, Aeon, etc.

          • fr0g
            7•5 months ago

            That could be a branding strategy, I guess, but the community project behind it will still need a name of some kind obviously. Unless they only want to show up at conferences/have a website url etc as “the project whose name shall not be mentioned”.

    • Drasglaf
      9•5 months ago

      There’s always been the risk of confusion

      A name change does make sense for both

      Then make SUSE become ClosedSUSE. It couldn’t be easier.