Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Tuesday 2005-11-15 at 20:21 -0600, Terry Eck wrote:

> I'm running "SuSE Linux 9.3 (i586)" according to the file
> "/etc/SuSE-release". BTW, what was the special meaning.
> Is there a difference between SuSE and SUSE in German?

We were commenting this in the Spanish list, so I have the data fresh, 
from another poster.

It seems that «in German nouns are capitalized, and the rest of the words 
aren't. Therefore, the "u" from "und" was lower case in "Software und 
System Entwicklung". Another explanation is that it sounds like "Zuse", 
the engineer that built the Z3 in 1941, and that some think was the first 
computer before von Neumann time, who although Hungarian developed his 
ideas in the USA.»

«
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
»


It seems then that it was Novell who changed SuSE to SUSE perhaps to 
emphasize that it was no longer a German concern. As European, if that is 
true, I prefer to cling to the old spelling: I stronlgly dislike companies 
changing their logos. And yes, my "/etc/SuSE-release" says:

   SuSE Linux 9.3 (i586)
   VERSION = 9.3

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson
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