SuSE Labs Formed

SuSE has formed SuSE Labs, an effort to contribute to free software projects. The press release (which can be mangled by Babelfish for all you non-German speakers) mentions projects like XFree86, KDE, and ISDN4Linux which SuSE has already worked on, and says that they will be working on them in the future, as well as other projects like ALSA. This seems pretty cool - I know Jaroslav (the ALSA guy) was hired by SuSE awhile ago.

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Nuernberg, 6 July 1999 - the SuSE getting thing AG, one the Linux Distributoren leading world-wide, makes a substantial contribution with the SuSE labs created now for Linux development. Spatially united at several European locations or via Internet connected, the SuSE programmers get different open going of SOURCE projects.

" the group carries unloaded of short and to medium-term business targets and on a solid economical base standing, long-term and technologically important Linux projects ", describes the chairman of the board Roland Dyroff the objective of the SuSE labs. " obligated, we will place the results - naturally inkusive SOURCE code - to the principle the open SOURCE often commodity to the advancement and free use to the order. Thus we take active product responsibility for Linux. "

So far SuSE engaged itself already energetically at different projects like the Linux Kernel, glibc, XFree86TM, KDE and ISDN4Linux. These work was now intensified and around new projects such as ALSA (Advanced Linux sound Architecture) and USB (universal Serial bus) extends.

Besides the SuSE bundles labs Linux Know how in a so far unique pool, which enables a quite new quality to professional Linux supports. " by the SuSE labs are we able to be able to offer to enterprise customers so-called Level3-Support. This guarantees effective assistance to the customer within defined response time on SOURCE code level ", continues to explain Tilman Mueller Gerbes, Vice President SuSE getting thing AG and: " beside the SuSE partners program or own service addresses locally and the support centers form the SuSE lab the third important column of our service supply. As prominent Linux providers creates SuSE with its constant support supply the basis to establish Linux also in enterprise-critical applications. "