Well, SUSE actually started out with College kids, who took Slackware, and made that into a German version of it, as they were all Germans.

The reason the first version of SUSE was 4.2 instead of 1.0, is "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

Also, other than making a great German version of Slackware, they also made Hardware as well. I've only seen pictures but I'd LOVE to have some. After a while, the guys there decided they wanted to make something other than a Translation of Slackware to German, and also, they wanted to make something that had REAL tools. SUSE is one of the oldest versions of Linux still around. Slackware and Debian are old, but most people seem to not know that SUSE has been around for a VERY long time.

They started working on something more their own after a while, and went with RPMs, but, they were one of the few that actually let you use basically anything; SuSE Linux 8.1 - I don't know now, all have tools for everything from installing from RPMs, .deb, .tgz, and so on, from Slackware, and more.

Anyway, Just wanted to pop in. Not sure why, but I've been awake at this point for 31 hours straight, and I'm just now getting my second can of Monster in. First one was like 3 hours ago.