HISTORY OF OPENSUSE

Founded on September 2, 1992 in Germany, under the name Gesellschaft für Software- und

Systementwicklung mbH (S.u.S.E. GmbH)

Developed by Roland Dyroff, Thomas Fehr, Hubert Mantel and Burchard Steinbild

S.u.S.E. Linux 1.0 was released in 1994

Novell, Inc. Acquired SUSE Linux in late 2003.

Novell, Inc. Acquired SUSE Linux in late 2003.

CHANGESThe development of the distribution was opened to public participation for the first time.

Released Downloadable ISO Installer.

Started the openSUSE Project.

BEFOREClosed-source development process.

Selling their distributions .

NEXT RELEASE SOURCE CODE :2 MONTHS AFTER IT WAS READY FOR PURCHASED.

NOVELL’s openSUSE Project

Release of SUSE Linux 10.0. [BETA]

Discontinued personal version then renamed the professional to simply SUSE LINUX .

Version 10.2 : SUSE Linux Distro = openSUSEopenSUSE provides the base for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server/Desktop and Open Enterprise Server

ATTACHMATE acquire Novell, Inc. on April 27, 2011

Splitted SUSE into a separate business from Novell

The new openSUSE

openSUSE 12.3 [KDE]

openSUSE current features

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE.

ABILITY TO USE DIFFERENT DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS.NEW AND UPDATED SETS OF APPLICATIONS

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

CPU: Intel Pentium III 500 MHz or higher minimum, Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or any AMD64 or Intel64 CPU recommended.

RAM: 1 GB, 2 GB recommended

Hard drive: 3 GB for minimal system; 5 GB recommended for standard system

Advantages andDisadvantages.

ADVANTAGES

openSUSE is FREE.

openSUSE is OPEN SOURCE.

openSUSE is much more SECURE compare to other OS.openSUSE is USER FRIENDLY.

openSUSE has a large resource of softwares.openSUSE has a lot of support forums.

openSUSE uses the YaST control center.

DISADVANTAGE

BUGS

About the LOGO.

Current mascot of the distribution is a veiled chameleon officially named

"Geeko"

For More Information :

Visit http://www.opensuse.org/.