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Anyone remember his name? Definitely would like to give him a shout out.
It might have been Andreas Färber.
My 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).
One thing I always found awesome is that even the very first versions, like "Linux Aktuell 4.x" from 1996 or so, already had full support for Braille terminals during installation. That made SuSE very usable for blind people, even installable, while for other operating systems you always needed someone to set the system up for you (and probably still do). I am not blind personally (and I don't know anybody who is), b…
SuSE doesn’t get enough credit for the quality of the distribution. Transactional updates, serious work towards a reproducible distribution, nano as an excellent container runtime, stability under large workloads - it’s a nice piece of engineering.
Out of curiosity, are you referring to MicroOS? I know they're written some container tools like catatonit but I haven't heard of nano.
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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"
SuSE doesn’t get enough credit for the quality of the distribution. Transactional updates, serious work towards a reproducible distribution, nano as an excellent container runtime, stability under large workloads - it’s a nice piece of engineering.
> SuSE doesn’t get enough credit for the quality of the distribution Maybe now. 7.2 had a bug where they showed one unit when partitioning drives and used another one when writing to disk. Ask me how i find out.
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I mean, Americans put "National" in front of everything. At least the German version suggests some level of awareness of a world beyond the borders.
National is generic, but many companies in the U.S. include America in their name.
After Red-Hat and Mandrake, it became my favourite home distro until Ubuntu came into the scene. Still have the SuSE 6.3 box, like it used to be common in those days. Yast is a great tool, and SusSE is one of the few distros that isn't stuck in the 1970's view of what means OS administration. Also an ideal candidate for the upcoming age of siloed countries, stuck in commercial wars.
I fucking loved Mandrake. And Red Hat on a PowerMac. It was a challenge but it was very rewarding when it worked. I had the opposite trajectory after that, though. I tried Ubuntu when it was new and shiny but ran into so many issues… Now I have been using OpenSuse continuously for about 6 years without complaint. Even the usual (though much rarer than it used to be) sticking point of Nvidia drivers are trivial to deal with by restoring snapshots.
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Like OpenAI or IBM....or the best one..Oracle for a Database ;)
Or like MicroSoft - Microcomputer Software.
OpenAI = Not Open
IBM = International Business Machines with NON international character encoding (EBCDIC).
Oracle = NOT what you want from a database nor from a CIA project ;)