What Is openSUSE?
The first thing anyone wants to ask is, ???Where does this
SUSE thing come from, why is it written in all uppercase
letters , and how do I pronounce it???? These are all fair
questions.
. The Gesellschaft f??r Software-und System-
Entwicklung (Corporation for Software and System
Development) was founded in 1992 in Nuremberg,
Germany, and it released its first distribution of the
Linux kernel and associated software a year later. SuSE
began publishing its distribution in English in 1997;
it opened an office in Oakland, California at that
time.
. The spelling, as you can see, is not derived from some
marketer??™s branding idea. It really is the corporate
acronym. However, since being acquired by Novell in
2004, the distribution is now called SUSE (no lowercase
letters) Linux, and the acronym no longer stands
for anything.
. In German, there are no silent letters, and the letter E
is almost always short (as in ???the???), so the company??™s
name is pronounced ???Sue-suh.??? More often than not,
though, you??™ll hear it referred to as ???Susie??? or some
other variation.
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