It's not Susie : openSUSE

Hey Linux people! Okay...I thought by now you might have probably thrown Windows out of your windows. But well, if you haven't then I got more Linux news for you! Previously inside the UNIX studio, we saw what Fedora 9 could do and what Fedora 10 would do. So, enough of Red Hat and Fedora already. Time to move on to the next distro - openSUSE from Novell. Surprisingly, I find this chamelon logo of openSUSE very apt for Linux because Linux is ever evolving and taking on new shapes and tools. Before I go on with the history lesson on openSUSE, why don't get yourself relaxed by watching the hilarious clips from Novell?

Seems like Windows' lost its edge doesn't it? But still, I'm a Vista user and I can't be evil to my OS. (and the blog writer dodges rotten tomatoes thrown at her by the readers) Watch the next one!



Talk about style! My opinion : Linux rules the runway...good thing it is open-source and you don't have to pay hundereds to get an OS. The last one is even humorous.

If you didn't laugh for that one then I don't know what else could be more laughable. Ok...coming to point. The three videos weren't there just for fun. It is for you (and myself) to see how much Linux has grown. Especially in the last video. Linux had been around ever since Windows and Mac was around and that is epic!

Now, for openSUSE. This entry would be just to clear up your mood a little bit for longer entries about openSUSE next week. So, I will not talk about too much technicality here.

openSUSE is obviously an open-source software sharing community for Linux (like the name suggests) and is founded by Novell. If you didn't know, openSUSE is also sponsored by AMD. openSUSE first officially announced its open-source SUSE Professional Series of Linux only in 2005. So, you can say openSUSE is quite new to the open-source community.

SUSE is actually a German acronym for 'Software and System Development' (in German of course). SUSE was found in 1992 only as a UNIX consulting group and they eventually joined Novell in 2004. Now, Novell was an American software company specializing in network operating systems. And did you know? Novell and Microsoft signed an agreement on 2/11/2006 to form a collaboration between Microsoft Office and openOffice.org, so that both softwares could function simultaneously with better compatibility. (I wonder what made Microsoft do that!) So, by the looks of it you could see for youself that Novell was a successful enterprise.

Back to openSUSE. If you would like to know more abotu openSUSE and even take part in their web portal, you can always go to this website : http://www.opensuse.org/ .

If you are the history person, hope that you've enjoyed this entry. Else if you the techno person, don't throw rotten tomatoes at me because I would be touching on the technicalities of openSUSE's Linux in the coming entry! Stay tuned to TheUNIXStudio!