On Tuesday 03 January 2006 03:57 pm, Scott Jones wrote:
Perhaps it was the first Novell release you used, however it was not the first release under the Novell banner. Novell purchased SUSE in January 2004, and the first Novell-branded SUSE release was 9.1 (http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2004/suse_archive/91.html).
Nope: My boxed set of 9.1 does not mention Novell at all. My 9.3 boxed set says Novell right on the box.
9.1 was already "In the can" and sent to duplication when the SuSE sale went down.
9.2 also has Novell on the box. Hope this ends the discussion.
9.1 was sold by Novell, 9.2 and later were branded by Novell.
Footnote to all this. I just logged into my SuSE 10 box and realized that Novell is not even on the login screen and it is only shown as a "A Novell Business" on the default wallpaper. And you all know what Novell did to WordPerfect after it bought it, took what it wanted (groupwise), and sold off what was left to Corel.