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The official capitalization of the name (SuSE, SUSE, Suse, etc) has been [changed many times|http://www.goodbye-dots.de/].
[SUSE] (the company) is now owned by [Novell], so expect the LinuxDistribution to either become the base of "Novell Enterprise Linux", or to gain a lot more relevance in the future as a product of its own merit, with NetWare services running on top of it. [SUSE] are putting a foot in the water by establishing [openSUSE|http://www.opensuse.org] to be a free version of [SUSE] and to act like FedoraCore is to RedHatEnterpriseLinux.
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seasoned users find [SUSE] pretty awful as far as distributions go. Its configuration tools interfere with manual tweaking a lot of the time, and while you can ignore them and remove all the automatisms, that certainly means no less work than setting yourself up on a less "puffy" distro. The default install doesn't include things like a [Compiler], make(1), locate(1) and others that really should be available on every "real" system, though you can easily add these missing tools with a few clicks once you know about them.
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seasoned users find [SUSE] pretty awful as far as distributions go. Its configuration tools interfere with manual tweaking a lot of the time, and while you can ignore them and remove all the automatisms, that certainly means no less work than setting yourself up on a less "puffy" distro. The default install doesn't include things like a [Compiler], make(1), locate(1) and others that really should be available on every "real" system, though you can easily add these missing tools with a few clicks once you know about them.
It is not a bad choice as an introductory system, but most adept users seem to move on to other distributions once they're a bit more familiar with Linux. If you want a beginner friendly LinuxDistribution that might last you longer, [Ubuntu] is possibly a better choice. It is also one you're likely to find help with among [WLUG]gers -- [SUSE] never had much of a following in NewZealand.
[SUSE] is best suited for businesses rather than end users. Where flexibility and control over any one machine matters less than easy roll-out and maintenance of mass installations, it is an excellent choice. [SUSE] offer a popular Enterprise Linux flavour of their distribution, which is often the only option other than RedHatEnterpriseLinux that third-party software vendors will support. In these situations it is a reasonable choice.
!! See also
-* [A review of SUSE Personal Edition 9.1 | SuseReview]
* [SUSE/OpenLDAP/Samba server tutorial | http://www.stress-free.co.nz/content/view/126/59/]
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