“The long awaited SUSE Linux 10.0 was finally released Thursday,
October 6 as planned and listed in the roadmap. I don’t know how
many downloads they’ve clocked as of yet, but within minutes of the
story breaking the OpenSUSE site and it’s download mirrors had
slowed to a crawl. There is a lot of interest in this release as
evidenced by the large number of reads of my articles during the
development cycle. The whole world was excited as I by Novell’s
decision to provide a free very close sibling to their enterprise
product under the gpl and organizing a team to develop it. Up until
that point SUSE interested me about as much as going to the
dentist. They have my attention now…!”