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SuSE CTO & President Steps Down 113

Posted by Hemos from the where-are-you-now-pussywillow? dept.
peterprior writes: "According to this press release, Dirk Hohndel, SuSE CTO and president has left SuSE. The article simply says that 'Dirk steps away from SuSE to pursue his personal and professional interests.' It goes on to say that 'His departure from SuSE comes at a time when SuSE gathers its forces and resources to strengthen SuSE as a business positioning itself to lead the world towards what is the most powerful and acknowledged alternative to the dominance of one proprietary operating system.'"
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  • SuSE 7.2 kicks butt... (Score:3, Informative)

    by FortKnox ( 169099 ) on Tuesday August 28, 2001 @11:29AM (#2225508) Homepage Journal
    ...If you haven't tried 7.2 professional, I found it mindnumbingly simple to install and get everything running quite nicely. I am very impressed with its newest release. Hopefully, it can continue on with the new CTO.

    And a little </I> would be nice :-P

  • Dirk Hohndel (Score:5, Informative)

    by alistair ( 31390 ) <[alistair] [at] [hotldap.com]> on Tuesday August 28, 2001 @12:27PM (#2225729)
    Dirk used to work at Deutsche Bank where he was head of Unix Strategy. You can see a short biography of him [suse.com] at the main SuSe site.

    He was heavily involved in the XFree86 project, which SuSE have supported for a number of years, in addition to their support for KDE, OpenLDAP etc.. There is an interview with him at Changelog [lwn.net].

    I think he will be missed at SuSE but they employ over 220 people worldwide and support many more development effors, while making a profit, so don't write them off on the basis of this announcement.

    I am currently running SuSE 7.2 on both my PC and Laptop. It is the best distribution I have used to date and the Support for XFree86 and KDE2.x is useful and appreciated.
    One interesting observation concerns a recent install I did on my IBM X21 Laptop, when SuSE was installed from DVD it installed completely in under an hour and correctly recognised network card and video Driver. Installing Windows 2000 on the other partition failed to recognise network or video card, it took 5 hours of downloads to fix this. Power management also works a treat on the laptop by defaut, credit and thanks to SuSE for this, and good luck for the future.

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