European Wafaa

Whilst waiting for my train back home from a client meeting in London last week, I decided to pop into the news agents and see what magazines they had to while my journey away. As I approached the tech related stand I was drawn uncontrollably to a magazine. No matter how hard I fought the urge, I was unable to break away. Yes, the force was strong with this one!

Once I arrived at the magazine, I understood why the force was so strong:


Yes Linux Format Issue109 has the Geeko emblazoned on the front cover, not only that the geeko is on the inside cover too:



Not content with just having the image of Geeko on there, the magazine goes on to have a six page spread on nothing but openSUSE 11.0, and boy do they like it (and why wouldn't they) To also confirm that openSUSE 11.0 is the dog's doodahs, their regular Distrowatch section had almost a page on openSUSE 11.0 again praising it to all sundry. The good thing is it wasn't written by any Novell employee and was completely un-biased, yes they had issues with a few things, but all in all they also came to the same conclusion - GREEN IS THE NEW BROWN!!

They had nice little quotes from several people, granted they were only from US based employees and not any of the European teams (only disappointing part of the piece). All in all a good read, and it was good to see that they acknowledge and understand that there is no default DE at install and that the Geeko loves all letters of the alphabet, not just the 7th and 11th letters.