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InternetWeek: Review: SUSE 9.0: A Distro Worth Paying For

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 13, 2004

“Europeans are different from North Americans. They have all
this cool, colorful money with lots of zeroes. They can smoke where
they want to. And they are trendsetters, listening to strange new
music and buying cars with heated seats.

“Now SUSE is liable to set a new trend: give Linux users a real
reason to actually buy a shrink-wrapped copy of a Linux
distribution.

“SUSE 9 offers a superb printed manual, a great installation
interface, a modern KDE system in addition to the more standard,
older GNOME interface, and a new kernel build. It’s easy to see why
Novell thought enough of the software to buy the company…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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