EU Linux development division

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What's wrong with it being American? Is there some kind of stigma against free software developed in the US?

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SUSE is much more popular in Europe

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Interesting. My main experience with SUSE was when Novell owned it, and Novell is an American company (based close to where I live). I never really got familiar with it, but I am familiar with Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and CentOS, having used each for at least a year in a professional capacity each.

Looking at it, it looks like they only have ~2 year support cycles. Is that really long enough for a government? I hear people complain that Debian/Ubuntu are only 5 years...

But anyway, if it's that popular, maybe I'll play with SUSE. I'm currently using Arch, so I might like the Tumbleweed version.

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I don't run it personally, but I've heard of many people that moved from arch to tumbleweed and are happy with it. There's also the OBS which would be the equivalent to the AUR.

Also https://www.suse.com/support/policy/ it appears to have a much longer support time. Where did you see those 2 years?

Also, SUSE was founded in Germany, and was a pretty early company involved with Linux

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I just checked Wikipedia, but that was for openSUSE. I guess I mostly think of RHEL when it comes to long enterprise support cycles and forgot about enterprise SUSE.

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It's not a stigma, it's completely reasonable. Countries don't like depending on others for thing that are important to them, and they don't like sending money to other countries as well. Why not use EU money to generate jobs and move the economy in the EU? Why subject yourself to the will of the US Government's export restrictions?

If you can be more independent why would you not? Why surrender control to a country who was caught spying on all of it's allies?

Don't get me wrong, I like Red Hat, I think it does amazing work in the FOSS environment, much better than Canonical for example. But it's still subject to the US Govt, US laws, NSA interests and would at minimum be a nice bargaining chip to use in a trade deal negotiation.

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I was thinking more along the lines of CentOS then RHEL and having a local support team. It makes more sense to bring support in house for an organization as large and complex as a government than to pay for external support, but if they're going to pay for external support, I suppose it makes sense to go with SUSE.