[Am-info] Product of the Year: SuSE Linux 7.3

[Fred A. Miller]

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Product of the Year: SuSE Linux 7.3

In some ways the last year hasn't been a banner one for the German 
company with the tropical mascot. SuSE took some collateral damage from 
the dot-com implosion, destaffing offices in the US and cutting back 
elsewhere in the world. 

But while the dot-commies of the world played air guitar, pretending to 
have real business models, SuSE continued to produce music the 
old-fashioned way, and for old-fashioned customers. They were a 
business, and they were in business to do business. The result in 2001 
was a series of 7.x distributions, each built around the 2.4 Linux 
kernel, that have earned a torrent of praise for their comprehensive 
utility, their documentation and their performance, among many other 
virtues, all adding up to a real winner. Plus, it's currently the only 
distribution to offer an encrypted filesystem as an install-time 
option. 

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Fred A. Miller
Systems Administrator
Cornell Univ. Press Services
fm@cupserv.org

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