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An interview with the new openSUSE community manager
An interview with the new openSUSE community manager
Posted Feb 5, 2008 22:59 UTC (Tue) by TxtEdMacs (subscriber, #5983)Parent article: An interview with the new openSUSE community manager
I remember writing SUSE as a mixed case string, i.e. SuSE. Doing a quick Google search I was surprised to find nearly all instances on the first page as all upper case. Not so on the second page it began to match what I thought was the proper form, hence, my mind is not as addled as I thought. Here is one link from that list: http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0... However, the important questions might be: 1.) does it matter? and 2.) if it does, was there a significant reason to have written it that form? Sort of curious. My take on this is the "u" is for the German und (and, in English), hence, if correct a conjunction does not deserve to be capitalized, even in German. P.S. Just hit the link as printed, copying it out gets you to a bogus location.
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An interview with the new openSUSE community manager
Posted Feb 5, 2008 23:39 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]
Actually, they started as S.u.S.E.. They they lost the dots, then after the Novell acquisition they uppercased the U.
An interview with the new openSUSE community manager
Posted Feb 6, 2008 10:12 UTC (Wed) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]
They have a long way to go to catch up with NeXTStep / NeXTSTEP / NEXTSTEP / OpenStep / OPENSTEP.
An interview with the new openSUSE community manager
Posted Feb 5, 2008 23:39 UTC (Tue) by danielthaler (subscriber, #24764) [Link]
Well, as the link says SuSE was (originally) "System und Software Entwicklung" which is system and software development. These days SUSE is Novells brand for it's Linux product, so there's no need for "odd" capitalisation.