On September 2 this year, SUSE will mark 20 years in the Linux business. That’s an eternity in an industry where 18 months is considered a lifetime.
The company was set up in Nuremberg by three university students – Hubert Mantel , Roland Dyroff, and Burchard Steinbild – and a software engineer, Thomas Fehr.
They wanted to build software and provide UNIX support and decided to distribute Linux, offering support.