SUSE Linux ?

Henry Spencer henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
Thu Nov 18 20:13:44 UTC 2004


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> > 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)...

Sure about that?  I've always seen the German computer pioneer's name
spelled "Zuse", and the older SuSE Linux distributions consistently spell
their name "SuSE" (note unusual capitalization). 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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