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August 17, 2017 12:15 am

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Is “Desktop” an Evanescent Concept?

The following article has been contributed by Richard Brown, QA Engineer at SUSE and openSUSE Board Chairman. Follow Richard on Twitter @sysrich. Recently there are discussions emerging about the reasons for the “failure” of the Linux Desktop – partly triggered by a German article on Heise. Well – in the […]

Categories: Expert Views

By: SUSE

February 20, 2017 1:16 pm

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Make Windows green again – Part 4

While we discovered in part 3 of this blog series how to run graphical openSUSE Linux programs within WSL, a lot of readers including myself started exploring this new opportunity. Given the feedback we received (either through comments or direct emails/chats), it seems that many of us (and by that I have to count myself […]

Categories: Chameleon, Free Tools, Technical Solutions

By: SUSE

February 3, 2017 3:49 pm

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Make Windows green again – Part 3

Welcome to Part 3 of "Make Windows green again". After we discussed in Part 1 of this blog series how to get openSUSE Leap running within WSL, and furthermore in Part 2 how to fix the user environment and installing additional software, openSUSE Linux already helps you accomplish a lot with the system. However, […]

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: SUSE

January 20, 2017 12:34 pm

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Make Windows green again – Part 2

In the first blog (https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/make-windows-green-part-1/) of this series I explained how to get openSUSE Leap 42.2 running within the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) of Windows 10. Now it is time to make it run properly because it’s not in a state I’d like to see it out there in […]

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: SUSE

January 12, 2017 11:34 am

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Make Windows green again – Part 1

It was November 28, 2016 when I came across an article on TechRepublic which talked about Microsoft’s plans for the future of Linux and Bash on Windows 10. The first read made me feel uncomfortable (I can’t really say why) but after the second read I started believing that this is in fact […]

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: Sabine Soellheim

December 13, 2016 12:40 am

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A Move to HANA Means a Move to Linux — But Not All Linux Is Created Equal

The market for HANA is evolving rapidly as customers are presented with multiple choices for an SAP HANA deployment, including multiple platform selections, deployment choices, and Linux distribution choices. SAP claims strong momentum with HANA and S/4HANA adoption. Estimates for the number of SAP customers on HANA range from fewer than 10,000 to 12,[…]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications

By: Michal Svec

June 27, 2013 7:58 am

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SUSE Virtualization Story

Over the past decade, SUSE has been a pioneer in helping to develop and commercialize enterprise virtualization technologies. This is the first post in a series outlining what we have done in the virtualization space and what we are planning to do—and there is a lot! Let's first look at the history: in June […]

Categories: Expert Views, Server, SLES on Azure, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Manager, Virtualization

By: grantho

October 15, 2008 3:10 pm

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What's the best replacement for Windows on the business desktop?

According to a recent Computerworld article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) is the best replacement for Windows on the business desktop. It's great to see Steven pick up on our strategy, and we at Novell are very appreciative of this. We're looking to put more Linux on business desktops, and SLED […]

Tags: Windows

Categories: Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop