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The SUSE Linux GmbH is a software enterprise, whose Hauptprodukte are Linuxdistributionen such as SUSE Linux as well as the support derselbigen. It is a subsidiary company of Novell, the USA.

Firm history

In September 1992 Dyroff, Burchard stone picture, Hubert coat and Thomas Fehr the "society for software and system development ltd." created Roland. The name see below His Excellency stood thereby as acronym for system and software development. As product thereby an extension of the Linux distribution Slackware was driven out.

1997 opened an office in Oakland, California, the USA, which could hold itself however due to thin reserves at that time (3 million dollar to see below His Excellency) not for a long time. 1998 moved the head office from to Nuremberg, in December 1998 the company name by see below His Excellency in SuSE were changed. In the course of the following time Suse opened then altogether six national and four international (the USA, Tschechien, Great Britain and Italy) addresses. On 25 November 2002 Richard Seibt CEO von Suse became.

On 4 November 2003 Novell communicated the assumption of the SuSE LINUX AG at the price of 210 million US Dollar. The transaction, by which Novell wanted to gain a foothold again more strongly on the market of the operating systems, was locked on 13 January 2004 and accompanied with the Umfirmierung of the SuSE LINUX AG into the company form SUSE Linux GmbH and SUSE Linux Products GmbH. With the assumption both the partner and the distributing organizations were integrated. Richard Seibt became a EMEA boss of Novell. It left to 9. May 2005 without indication of reasons the company.

To open begun in August 2005 with the Launch of the openSUSE Community project the advancement of Suse Linux for external users and developers. Novell struck thereby a similar way as talk-has with the Fedora core project in. Novells future Linux variants are then developed with the help of the openSUSE Community.

Products

For private customers and developers the Suse Linux version of the openSUSE project is meant, which can be downloaded either on the project sides or bought in the business.

Among the products for business customers the server families with the SUSE Linux Enterprise server rank (short SLES). This is maintained at present in two versions: The older SLES 8 with a Linux 2,4 Kernel and the current SLES 9 with 2,6 Kernel. Both variants are for several processor architectures available, among other things Intel x86, AMD x86-64, IBM power, IBM S/390 and zSeries, as well as Intel Itanium. On basis of the Enterprise servers further Business products e.g. exist, like the Suse Linux standard server 8 (briefly SLSS). From the SUSE Linux Enterprise server 9 are test versions on the Novell Website available.

In the Desktop family is the successor of the Suse Linux Desktop of the Novell Linux Desktop (short NLD). Starting from the version 10 appearing in the summer 2006 servers and Desktop are based on an identical base of code, SUSE Linux Enterprise. That is reflected also in the name again. From the Novell Linux Desktop becomes the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop ("SLED").

As application in the Groupware segment it gave to some time ago the Suse Linux Openexchange server. Linux solutions were offered by the Suse Framework Solutions.

Of the Web server of the openSUSE project and the Mirrors specified there one can download by network installation or as CD and DVD ISOs SUSE Linux.