SUSE Linux

SUSE Linux is a major operating system. The developer rights are owned by Novell, Inc. SUSE is also a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium.

The SUSE Linux distribution was originally a German translation of Slackware Linux. In mid-1992, Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was founded by Peter MacDonald, and was the first comprehensive distribution to contain elements such as X and TCP/IP. The Slackware distribution (maintained by Patrick Volkerding) was initially based largely on SLS.

There are two major distributions of SUSE Linux currently active. First, SUSE Linux Enterprise, This is Novell's open-source solution for major enterprise. It is made up of two packages SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) -is the Enterprise Server Operating System component of SLE- & SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) -is the Enterprise Desktop Operating System component of SLE-. Second, openSUSE, This is a free, Novell supported distribution, designed for home users.

SLES is supported by the major hardware vendors - IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, Dell, SGI, Lenovo, and Fujitsu Siemens Computers.