On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 01:01:20PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com> writes:
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
It was never "SuSe". The last letter was always a capital "E". The difference are the dots and the "u",
Where do the dots come in? Is there a version called S.u.S.E?
1992 September : Gesellchaft fur Software und Systementwicklung mbH (English is "Company for Software and system development Ltd" or S.u.S.E
They were there in the beginning, the company was called that way initially, I think it was mentioned in this thread already. I guess we should open a page on the wiki explaining the history.
March 1993 : Sales of the system software "Linux" begins on 60 floppy disks Apr 1994: Release of Linux 1.0 May 1996 : First version of S.u.S.E Linux with insstallation tool YAST1 Mar 1997 : Establishment of a sales company in the USA. July 1998 : S.u.S.E Linux 5.2 is best selling Linux distro to date (As it should be) Dec 1998 : No more dots. S.u.S.E becomes SuSE Jan 1999 : Establishment of the in house publisher SuSE PRESS May 1999 : Besides the English, French, German, and Italian versions, SUSE 6.1 now appears in Spanish as well. Nov 1999 : A major change in 6.3, YAST1 is replaced with the GUI YAST2. Jan 2000 : Establishment of the support center in Breman, Germany Mar 2000 : SuSE 6.4 includes colorful install manual Aug 2000 : For the first time, SuSE Linux 7 is released in two versions (Personal and Professional) Nov 2000 : Release of SuSE Linux for IBM S/390 Feb 2001 : SuSE Linux 7.1 gets 2.4 Kernel. Mar 2001 : At the CeBIT tradeshow, an optimized version of SuSE Linux for servers is introdiced under the same SuSE Linux for Enterprise Server. Apr 2001 : SuSE presents 7.1 for SPARC June 2001 : 7.2 gets released with the firewall, 2.4 Kernel, and crypto file system Jan 2002 : Release if SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for the pSeries and iSeries. Apr 2002 : SuSE Linux 8.0 is released with the new GUI KDE 3.0 May 2002 : SuSE Linux, Caldera, Conectiva, and Turbo Linux launch UnitedLinux, a joint Linux for enterprise deployment before SCO and Caldera decided to suck. September 2002 : Happy Birthday !! :) Allen who typed this out of Love / Liebe Fur SUSE.
Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126