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New Financing And Fewer Staff @ SuSE

Posted by Hemos on from the keeping-on-moving dept.

jdfox writes: "According to this press release from SuSE, they have just received another 15 million Euros (about 14 million $US) venture capital, with some big names listed in the consortium's membership. They have also announced that a quarter of their 500 staff will be let go, following on from similar recent cuts. This excellent distro deserves to succeed: I hope this move will see them through the current slowdown." The upcoming release (needs babelfishing from German) of SuSE's version 7.3 promised for October 13th is loaded with a ton of goodies, too -- Kernel 2.4.10, KDE 2.2.1 and GNOME 1.4.1 beta2, among other things.

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  1. Behold, the economy... by 11thangel · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ok, is this surprising to anyone? (Not the updated packages, those are a shock) But if anyone WASNT expecting those cutbacks, lemme know.

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    1. Re:Behold, the economy... by zambro1 · · Score: 1, Troll

      I'm more surprised that anyone is still willing to invest $14 million on a Linux distro...

  2. Re:We Don't Care About SuSe Right Now!!!(joke) by Sheldon_Brown · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not Osama. He's already GOT his.

    Oh well. I can dream! By the way, what does this mean: "Your comment violated the postercomment compression filter. Comment aborted"?

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  3. Re:Deserves? by Sheldon_Brown · · Score: 0, Troll

    "zealotry can be a potent force for survival."

    Are you talking about this guy???

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  4. Stephen King, author, dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.