Why SUSE Why? | Linux Today

Why SUSE Why?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 9, 2007

“SUSE 10.3 was released and I had to try it. All geared up, I
started downloading the torrent of the KDE version. I realized that
it was not just me who was eager to download and try, but a whole
lot of other people were also downloading the same torrent. I had
736 people as seeds and more than one thousand as peers. That’s
some numbers, SUSE definitely has a big fan following. The 700 MB
iso took some 4-5 hours of download time on my 256 mbps connection
and I was all set to install.

“I already had Linux Mint on my system, so instead of bothering
to burn a CD, I just followed the excellent tutorial on SUSE site
to install from hard disk…”

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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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