Steven Udell wrote:

What is SuSE based on?

Someone said Slackware?

SVR4 (System V(5) revision 4)? (more powerful, more complex) (debian) BSD.init (slackware)

Any info on this?

Hi, I answered quite the same question in an other thread on this list some days ago: SuSE was based on Slackware (it has been a German version of Slakware, we translated all the installation tools to German and fixed some bugs, so it was more ore less just a German Slakware version) and we have to thank Patrick for his great work. But at one point we decided to move away from Slackware and that it's time to create our own distribution. We also decided not to start from scratch, but to use Florian LaRoche's Jurix distribution as a startpoint for developing the S.u.S.E. distribution. Florian is now an employee of S.u.S.E. and continues his work mainly on the base system of S.u.S.E. Linux. Release 4.2 was the first Jurix based S.u.S.E. Linux. Ciao, BB PS: An archive of this list will be available soon, perhaps late this week... -- Bodo Bauer S.u.S.E., LLC fon +1-510-835 7873 bb@suse.de 458 Santa Clara Avenue fax +1-510-835 7875 <A HREF="http://www.suse.com"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com</A">http://www.suse.com</A</A>> Oakland CA, 94610 USA -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e