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<div>I'll just add a memory about SuSE and YaST.</div><div><br></div><div>I went to a LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco during the DotCom era. I went to the exhibits of various distros and asked about their process for installing Linux. The SuSE rep handed me a green shrink wrapped package containing several CDs and said, "Here." <br></div><div><br></div><div>In my experience, YaST was much easier to deal with than most of the alternatives.<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 11:17:17 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Quoting Texx (<a shape="rect" href="mailto:texxgadget@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">texxgadget@gmail.com</a>):<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> [The SUSE people] claim to have started in 1992, making them actually<br clear="none">> older than RedHat, but couldnt tell me when they were first available<br clear="none">> shrink wrapped.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The _firm_ ('Gesellschaft für Software und System Entwicklung mbH') was<br clear="none">established in 1992 -- and what they distributed at that time was<br clear="none">Slackware (and also SLS). Then in 1994, Patrick Volkerding helped<br clear="none">translate Slackware into German, and the resulting translated Slackware<br clear="none">was sold as 'S.u.S.E. Linux 1.0' -- but there was at that point no other<br clear="none">software difference from Slackware, except full German language support.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The company played around a bit with slightly customised Slackware, then <br clear="none">switched stategies between 1993 and 1996 to use Florian La Roche's Jurix, <br clear="none">another now-defunct early Linux distribution out of Germany, about which see<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linux.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/linux/distributions/jurix/docs/history.html " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linux.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/linux/distributions/jurix/docs/history.html </a>.<br clear="none">The firm hired La Roche, in effect taking Jurix in-house, and it was he<br clear="none">who developed the YaST admin tool for which SUSE became best known.<br clear="none">Finally, the next release, 'S.u.S.E Linux 4.2' (to my knowledge the<br clear="none">first non-beta after 1.0) followed, and was the first released that was<br clear="none">distinctive from other people's work. The new version number was, of<br clear="none">course, a Hitchhiker's Guide reference.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">So, whoever told you they 'started in 1992' was either underinformed or<br clear="none">was cheating a bit, because before 1996 SUSE was just a Unix consultancy<br clear="none">firm and redistributor of other people's distributions.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I was surprised that the latest acquisition of Suse (Pronounced ' soo<br clear="none">> sah ' , NOT ' soo see' )<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> They were owned by Novell, then Micro Focus, and now some Swedish<br clear="none">> venture capitalist firm....<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Yeah, I said that.<div class="ydpd03fedb1yqt2701118015" id="ydpd03fedb1yqtfd76877"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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