From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 29 Jul 2017, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.suse, in article   
   , Rancher Bob wrote:   
      
   >Suse assigned me an IP address of 10.0.2.15.   
      
   No, that's more likely your router that did that   
      
   >Is this as secure as IP addresses such as 192.168.0.1?   
      
   Secure from what?  Like 192.168.0.1, it's an RFC1918 address   
      
     1918 Address Allocation for Private Internets. Y. Rekhter, B. Moskowitz,   
          D. Karrenberg, G. J. de Groot, E. Lear. February 1996. (Format:   
          TXT=22270 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1627, RFC1597) (Updated by RFC6761)   
          (Also BCP0005) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE) (DOI:   
          10.17487/RFC1918)   
      
   hit your favorite search engine looking for RFC1918 if you're curious.   
   It's a "non-routable" address - can't be used as the "TO" or "FROM"   
   address in a packet on the Internet - but that's about it.  There are   
   three ranges in that family:   
      
       10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255   
       172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255   
       192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255   
      
   pay your money, take your pick - they're FUNCTIONALLY the same.   
      
   >Suse seems to be a good operating system.   
      
   It's one of 289 "ACTIVE" Linux distributions - distrowatch.com has some   
   855 in their database   
      
   >It's a little different from other types of Linux.   
      
   If you go back far enough, it's got roots in Red Hat, and friends,   
   but it's all Linux.  The main differences are in the package managers   
   and the extra tools that are supplied.  They're are running the same   
   Linux kernel, one of perhaps a dozen or two desktops, and so on.  It's   
   the same, but different, and vice-versa.   
      
           Old guy   
      
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