I have one machine running 12.1, two machines running 12.2 and two machines running 12.3 RC testing pre-release. All of them running KDE.
I have five machines running openSUSE. I don’t have a singe other distro running locally.
It’s a lot of hardware dedicated to openSUSE.
So its not too much for openSUSE, though one might wonder of your sanity. But then, running more than one PC with openSUSE is not a sin in my book. Sounds like a good thing to do as long as you are not going hungry to keep all of those openSUSE mouths happy. lol!
Thank You,
On 2013-02-18 23:56, FlameBait wrote:
> It’s a lot of hardware dedicated to openSUSE.
If you install different distros, then you have to learn different
methods and caveats. Waste of time, unless you have a need for it, like
different needs, or that you get paid for that.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
No, that’s wrong.
It’s a lot of hardware dedicated to using the computer the way that you want to use it. And what’s wrong with that?
For what it’s worth, I have 5 boxes running openSUSE. That counts one at work, technically owned by my employer.
One of those boxes at home is on the graveyard shift. That is to say, it is old slow hardware, but useful for testing how new opensuse releases run on old slow hardware.
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:56:02 +0000, FlameBait wrote:
> I have one machine running 12.1, two machines running 12.2 and two
> machines running 12.3 RC testing pre-release. All of them running KDE.
> I have five machines running openSUSE. I don’t have a singe other distro
> running locally.
> It’s a lot of hardware dedicated to openSUSE.
Is it possible to have “too much” of a good thing? 
I’ve got 4 installs on “bare metal” and irregularly several virtual
machines running various versions for testing.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
You are probably obliging openSUSE’s request to heat up their servers Heat Up Our Servers: 12.3 RC1 Is Ready To Download - openSUSE News
We have 5 PCs in our place with openSUSE, although only 3 run it regularly.
The 3 that are mine (two desktops and a laptop) have an assortment of different openSUSE versions :
[ul]
[li]my main desktop PC (an old Intel Core i7 - 920) has openSUSE-12.1 and winXP in dual boots. The winXP rarely sees the light of day (it is OEM). I use legacy grub boot manager.
[/li][li]my other desktop PC (an ancient 32-bit althlon-1100 CPU) has an assortment of boots:
[/li][LIST]
[li]openSUSE-12.1,
[/li][li]openSUSE-12.2 tumbleweed (with an old 3.6.x kernel) and
[/li][li]openSUSE-12.3 RC1 (which only boots to a reasonable GUI with the ‘nv’ or ‘vesa’ driver, as the nouveau driver in the 3.7.x kernel is not useable on the old nvidia FX5200 (NV34) hardware in this PC.
[/li][/ul]I use legacy grub boot manager on this PC. This PC has no MS-Windows, but does have a ‘freedos’ boot.
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[li]my old laptop (an old Dell Studio 1537 w/Intel core2 duo P8400 CPU) has openSUSE-12.2 and Windows7 in a dual boot. Windows7 rarely sees the light of day. This PC uses grub2 boot manager.
[/li][/LIST]
My wife is an MS-Windows user, but she does want openSUSE on her two PCs :
[ul]
[li]her desktop (an Intel Core i7 - 860) has openSUSE-12.2 and Windows7 (separate purchase) and winXP (separate purchase) in a triboot. The winXP rarely sees the light of day. She mostly always boots to Windows7. I boot the openSUSE on her PC occasionally to keep it up to date. She uses legacy grub boot manager on this PC.
[/li][li]her laptop (a Lenovo X220) (with an Intel Core i5 cpu) has openSUSE-12.1 and Windows7 (OEM) in a dual boot. She mostly always boots to Windows7. I boot the openSUSE on her PC occasionally to keep it up to date. She uses legacy grub boot manager on this PC.
[/li][/ul]
I may update some of the 12.1 PCs to 12.2 (or possibly 12.3) in the near future. Typically I lag the new openSUSE versions by a few months. In this case I mostly lag by over 8 months.
Many people over here can run server clusters :good:
I like to have my computers run one solution. Before that was why Debian was so appealing is how many packages and cpu arches it ran on. Though I only ever will have x86 and perhaps later arm so I have all I need. Nothing beats the polish of openSUSE.
I used to have a home server with a P4, but now I only have this one laptop running 12.2. Currently using fluxbox.
Too much openSUSE? 16 installs on one and the same machine, that’s my picture of “too much openSUSE”.
The situation here atm:
4 PC’s
4 laptops
1 netbook
All of them running openSUSE only, except wife’s laptop, it has windows7 on it, untouched, wife already asked for removal.
7 machines now run 12.2, my own laptop runs Tumbleweed.
Going to have to drag out that old Celeron machine that has a Debian server installed on it and up my number lol!
Another reason why you cannot calculate the number of machines running Linux on the basis of distro downloads 
Doesn’t say downloads.one download may spawn 100 installs. For example in a small company i download one image and install it on hundred machines. If you look in that scenario you will have far greater number of installs than downloads
For example 12.2 had 92309 downloads and if each downloads causes 2 installs(conservative)
That would amount to 92309×2=184618 installs. These numbers don’t take into account, the “zypper dups” and “tumbling updates” (tumbleweed). If both dups and tumbles add up to half of previous number 184618/2 = 92309. Total 12.2 users would be 92309+184618 = 276,927. This would my estimate of number of users who use openSUSE 12.2 alone. Plenty of people still use 12.1 and 11.4 and other legacy versions like 10.X etc. If we consider that equal number of users use legacy versions compared to current version users then total number of openSUSE users would be 276,927x2 = 553,854 ?
Total Linux users around would if we consider 10x553,854 =5,538,540
Too much prediction and lot of unknown extrapolations
source:- openSUSE 12.2: Brought to you by "an extremely talented group of people" - openSUSE News
You know it sounds like to me if you are going to install openSUSE 100 times, you need to download it 100 times. What were you thinking? Downloads can get old and stale and need to be refreshed.lol!
Thank You for Downloading and Downloading openSUSE again,
Four downloads, four installed systems here.
Downloads (of 12.3 RC1):
32 bit DVD: installed on one system;
64 bit DVD: installed on 3 systems;
32 bit live KDE: not used for install;
64 bit live KDE: not used for install.
One download of 12.2 here. Installed on 3 machines at home… oh, and 400 machines at work … I win
M
I think that reinstalling openSUSE over 100 times per computer requires asking for (psychology) assistance in the forum. 
Thank You,
Sorry, I don’t get that. I only installed it once per machine … I have 400 machines running openSuse
M
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:56:01 +0000, jdmcdaniel3 wrote:
> interele;2529540 Wrote:
>> One download of 12.2 here. Installed on 3 machines at home… oh, and
>> 400 machines at work … I win 
>>
>> M
>
> I think that reinstalling openSUSE over 100 times per computer requires
> asking for (psychology) assistance in the forum. 
Nah, that kind of deployment is most likely automated.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
Like most things with me, it seemed more funny at the time. You see I have lots of computers at my work too and at least three at home and I have install openSUSE a lot of times as well. Oh well, there has got to be something funny in there somewhere. But perhaps the fact that I was drinking at the time made it seem funny?
Thank You,