SUSE Linux ?

Peter L. Peres plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 19 02:37:37 UTC 2004


On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Geoffrey Hunter wrote:

> Today I heard of the SUSE Linux distribution: it is being supported by
> UNISYS on their servers.  Does anybody on this TLUG list know more
> about it and/or have experience using it ?  I got the impression that
> it is a carefully selected set of applications on top of the kernel.
> The acronym is originally German: Systems und Software Engineering.

Suse is not an acronym, it stands for Konrad Suse, a German pioneer in 
computing (search for "Konrad Suse" on google). I have run Suse from 
~1999-2003.

Suse is awell integrated type of Linux distribution that comes with 2500+ 
applications included (including many commercial ones) on 6 cds or 1 dvd 
(or is it 2 dvds now). Usually its integration is flawless, i.e. you click 
on things in the package manager and they work/install/uninstall 
(including dependencies). It gave me one of the smoothest rides I can 
recall (I have used Slackware, Debian, and *bsd before, and am on Debian 
now).

Boxed versions (including book, media, start floppies (who needs those ?)) 
go for between 70 and 100 Euros. There is a home and a professional 
version, and they also have a server version I think.

Peter

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