Okay, I’ve been in the business of writing about Linux for a while now, so change over time is to be expected… but, look, this is getting silly.
The distro now known as SUSE started off as S.u.S.E., and then morphed into SuSE, and then finally became SUSE. Then, they launched the openSUSE project, and it was openSUSE and SUSE for a while, plus Novell Enterprise Desktop or something, and then to clear up confusion they said “it’s all SUSE.”
Until today, when they announced, it’s openSUSE again. Note this is less than six months after standardizing on the SUSE name.
Bloody hell, already. Pick a name, and stick with it. At this point, I will no longer feel bad at all if I happen to reference SUSE by some outdated version of its name in a story or article. No one should be held accountable for trying to keep track of all the permutations of SUSE that they’ve got going on that change on a regular basis.
That’s why I love the distros made by volunteers. Either Debian or Gentoo (there is plenty of others) has never taught of changing their names for marketing reasons.
More over, they are what their developpers want. These will not always fit your purposes and this is why is so important to understand how they are build to improve them to fit your needs.
Simon