onsdagen den 5 juni 2002 18.03 wrote Kevin McLauchlan:
Anybody know if SuSE has any kind of program or relationship with Linux User Groups?
The local OCLUG (Ottawa C_____ Linux Users Group) was large and active, the last time I looked, but they were all using RH, Debian, Mandrake or several lesser-known distros. Hardly anyone admitted to running SuSE.
I think I'm the only one of the active members in my LUG (SLUG S =Stockholm) who uses Suse. All the others are using debian. Nothing wrong with that but I think Suse is better alternative if we are going to gett new people using Linux.
It seems to me that having a connection with LUGs would be a useful marketing tactic for a Linux company. Sponsor some 'install-fests', maybe provide some speakers for their major gatherings, put up some door-prizes...
That's how I first started using Suse. A local company (nohup) had donated some software and books. Before that I used Mandrake or RedHat distros.
By the way, everyone over here pronounces it "Suzie" (when they mention it at all, which is rare...), though I understand the purists insist on "susuh" or "suseh". That might be a slight marketing barrier right there, unless SuSE were to play it up and make a bit of fun with the name, to get us Nordamericanos talking about it.
In Sweden we pronounce it "suseh" but I think that the proper German is "sooseh". Olle Viksten -- MicroSoft Network may not carry this message without license to do so. License to carry this message requires a fee of $1000, payable within 30 days to Olle Viksten. Appearance of this message on MicroSoft Network constitutes an agreement to terms.