SUSE celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and although its parent company Novell (now owned by Attachmate) has experienced its share of ups and down commercially and with the open source community, SUSE's success is still a bright light for Linux users everywhere. OpenSUSE, the free Linux distribution that is the base for SUSE Linux Enterprise, also continues to be a popular distribution for Linux users and is currently at version 12.1.
I've had a long affinity for openSUSE, preferring the lizard distro over Ubuntu and Mint. Despite a few poorly received and somewhat buggy releases between 10 and 11 versions, I continued to use openSUSE on my machines over the last few years and currently run 12.1 on my Asus EeePC 1000H. It remains one of my favorite distributions today and find it more dependable and usable than the current releases of Ubuntu and Mandriva.
For a quick look at SUSE and a great infographic on its success, read "SUSE Linux: 20 Years and Going Strong" over at PCWorld.com. To celebrate with other lizard users, head over to openSUSE.org and try out openSUSE 12.1 or head off to SUSE's official download page for free downloads of SUSE Linux Enterprise and other awesome products.
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