SUSE Turns 20, Ascends to the Cloud (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

Linux.com has an interview with SUSE's Vice-President of Engineering Ralf Flaxa. "Linux.com: What’s the significance of 20 years in business? Ralf Flaxa: The significance comes in our longevity, which even surprises us to a degree. In fact, our first reaction was “Hey, 20 years!” There have been many other distributions that have come and gone – we were one of the first and we’re still here. We view the staying power as very significant."

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SUSE Turns 20, Ascends to the Cloud (Linux.com)

Posted Jun 1, 2012 15:41 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]

Wow, 20 years? I installed Linux from SLS, oh, just shy of 19 years ago. That *is* some staying power!

That would've been what, the 0.95-ish kernel timeframe? I didn't hop on the bandwagon until around 0.99.13.

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I also briefly looked at that other upstart the year before, 386BSD. I wasn't ready to ditch DOS on my 386SX yet at that time, since I had only been using UNIX for a few months. And 'sides, dialup was only 2400 baud still at the uni, and I only had 9600 baud serial in my room. (For the record, I managed to scrape together enough $ to get a 486DX/33 by the time I got to Linux and managed to score 10BASE-T access by then.)

Ah, those were the (fun, but bad old) days.
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SUSE Turns 20, Ascends to the Cloud (Linux.com)

Posted Jun 3, 2012 9:49 UTC (Sun) by thoeme (subscriber, #2871) [Link]

Congratulatios!
I am using SuSE since 1997, replacing Win 3.1 on my 486/66. From S.U.S.E 4.4 to openSuSE 12.1 in 15 years :-)
Cheers, Thöme