It's the Directory, Stupid

"I've been covering Linux and open-source software closely since the dawn of this millennium, and over those seven or so years I've become a believer in the potency of the open-source development model.

"Consider SUSE Linux 6.4, which shipped about a month after Windows 2000 was launched. From that 2000 SUSE release to the recently-minted OpenSUSE 10.3, this Linux distribution drew from and added to an impressive cache of code, including multiple, well-crafted solutions to more than a few computing problems that Microsoft has not yet or is only beginning to address itself..."

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