Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 08:21 pm, Allen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:37:03AM -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 November 2005 05:16 pm, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> > > If you don't know what SuSE means, look it up.
> >
> > LOL!!
> >
> > This will probably have already been answered, but SuSE is the old German
> > name - Software und System Entwicklung - which means Software and System
> > Development. (SaSD doesn't sound quite as nice, does it?) Of course since
> > the Big Red N bought it out, they can change the name to whatever they
> > want, so they just made the "und" into a U.
>
> Ummm, SaSD wouldn't look good considering UND is how you spell it, and it
> IS a "u" It's not AND, it's UND. SoftwareUndSystemEntwicklung. That is
> SUSE.
>
> Where you got "and" is beyond me.

I translated "und" into the English counterpart, and. :)

Software und System Entwicklung = Software and System Development


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