Why is it written as an initialism as if you would pronounce each letter individually? At least for English speakers, that's not the way, right?
The History of S.u.S.E
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#22My first introduction to linux was SuSE 7.2. Got it in the physical box from a local Borders bookstore. I think I was about 12-13 years old. Installed it on the family Gateway computer (PIII, 128mb ram).
My first PC was a used IBM PS/2 Model 70. 2 MB RAM, 60 MB HD. It could not run Linux due to the MCA bus. I lost one year of Linux use because of it, until I bought a Pentium 75.
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#23IMHO, Deutsche Linux-Distribution (DLD) was the first german linux distribution (first release in 1992).
So it's not just a meme that Germans like to put "Deutsche" in front of every product/company name, it's the reality. How imaginative, the marketing departments who come up with these names must be making bank.
That the distribution was a fully translated system together with a thick manual (of course also in German) was the whole point and idea. Your comment is too dismissive in my opinion.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
The original name of the company was S.u.S.E. with the dots. "Software- und System-Entwicklung" (Software and system development)
> Software- und System-Entwicklung Wow that's like naming your cleaning company "Cleaning Company"
Well, SAP initially stood for "Systemanalyse Programmentwicklung".
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#25I've been a user of openSUSE since "openSUSE", nearly. It's my daily driver, today. I want to say I was playing with Mandrake, Red Hat and a little Gentoo at the time. I started using it regularly around 2010ish - I was working at a Windows shop and had a pretty elaborate home lab with Windows servers and domain controllers so I could do things at home "before trying that on corporate." I remember the deciding factor…
FWIW, I believe btrfs is also the default FS for Fedora these days (though not Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
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#26IMHO, Deutsche Linux-Distribution (DLD) was the first german linux distribution (first release in 1992).
So it's not just a meme that Germans like to put "Deutsche" in front of every product/company name, it's the reality. How imaginative, the marketing departments who come up with these names must be making bank.
Well who ever came up with "Deutsche Linux-Distribution" most likely did not have a marketing department.
Besides, putting "German" in your product name at the time (199x) actually was a savvy marketing move, especially if you are the first in a particular niche. There were lots of buyers who wanted to buy fully translated software back then, and the sticker "Software and Manual in German" probably is the most successful sale booster of the 80ies and 90ies in Germany.
This of course does not even touch the subject of localization issues, just to name 2 from the top of my hat:
[1]For years (maybe a decade?) Apple maps had issues if you tried to enter an address the "German" way: instead of .
[2]To this day websites ask me for "states" in my shipping address. Yes, Germany has states. We mostly dont care about them. No one puts the state in a shipping address. Shops, please stop getting annoyed when I dont know if you expect me to enter a 2-or 3-length string as abbreviation for my state (which you dont need for anything, anyway). VAT is a federal tax, therefore its not different from state to state.
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#27SUSE is a strong partner for my managed products, and every person I have worked with there has been skilled and good people.
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#28My first introduction to linux was SuSE 7.2. Got it in the physical box from a local Borders bookstore. I think I was about 12-13 years old. Installed it on the family Gateway computer (PIII, 128mb ram).
I have a very similar experience but using 6.4 installed from 6 (six) CD's.
Took me forever to get internet working, first dial-up then ISDN.
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#30SUSE has always been this perennial figure in the Linux world for me; the Linux Distro that isn't talked about often, but is generally liked and respected, by most people who use it.
I ran OpenSUSE for about a year in 2013-2014, and it did sort of have the Just Works nature to it: things did more or less what I expected them to do without much tinkering. It was the first Linux that I liked enough to be my sole operating system instead of dual booting, which should say something by itself.
I stopped running OpenSUSE because I bought a new laptop which had Nvidia Optimus, and someone told me that that was easier to get working with Arch, so that's what I did, and I haven't really touched SUSE since, but I will always respect it for getting me interested in Linux and open source.