Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:49:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Peigi Cleminshaw <peigi@suse.com>
To: press@suse.com, users@suse.com, suse-announce-e@suse.com
Subject: [press] SuSE + SourceForge Press Announcement


 FOR RELEASE/Monday, March 13, 2000
  
  SuSE TEAMS WITH VA LINUX SYSTEMS' SOURCEFORGE[tm] TO IMPROVE
  DEVELOPER AND END-USER ACCESS TO SuSE LINUX
  
  
  SourceForge Designated as Primary Mirror for SuSE Linux; SuSE Offered
  as a SourceForge CompileFarm Platform
  
  NUREMBERG, Germany -- March 13, 2000 -- SuSE Linux today announced that
  it has designated VA Linux Systems' (Nasdaq: LNUX) SourceForge, the
  world's largest Open Source development center, as a primary mirror for
  ftp.suse.com, to help improve the availability of SuSE Linux via download.
  
  SuSE Linux is available for download at
  ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/suse/, which carries the full FTP
  version of SuSE Linux, as well as ISO images of the evaluation version,
  updates and fixes.
  
  "We are very pleased to have SourceForge as our primary mirror site," said
  Dirk Hohndel, Chief Technical Officer for SuSE Linux.  "This enables
  our customers to have faster access to our download area and helps us
  spread the word about SuSE's superior quality."
  
  Further, SuSE Linux is now offered as a platform on the SourceForge
  CompileFarm, a unique service that gives Open Source developers a
  convenient way to build and test applications on multiple versions of
  the Linux and BSD operating systems over the Internet.  The SourceForge
  CompileFarm enables Open Source developers to automatically create
  packages that can be installed on SuSE Linux using SuSE's YaST
  installation tool, without having to compile the programs manually.
  
  "The designation of SourceForge as the primary mirror of a highly
  regarded Linux distribution such as SuSE demonstrates the growing
  importance of SourceForge within the Open Source community," said
  Dr. Larry M. Augustin, president and CEO of VA Linux Systems.
  "Incorporating SuSE on SourceForge's CompileFarm makes it easy for
  Open Source developers to build and tune applications for a broader user
  base."
  
  
  About VA Linux Systems
  
  Since 1993, VA Linux Systems has been a recognized leader in advancing
  Linux and Open Source solutions. VA Linux provides a single point
  of contact for Linux systems, Open Source software, and world-class
  professional services and support. VA Linux Systems owns and operates
  SourceForge, the world's largest Open Source development center, as well
  as Linux.com and Themes.org.  Headquartered in Sunnyvale, VA Linux is
  located on the Web at http://www.valinux.com/.  
  
  
  About SuSE
  
  Headquartered in Germany with a workforce of over 300 people worldwide,
  SuSE (www.suse.com) is the leading international Linux company.  SuSE is
  used by more than 50,000 business customers worldwide due to its stability
  and high quality.  With offices in the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic,
  the United States and Italy, SuSE contributes extensively to Linux
  development projects such as the Linux kernel, glibc, Xfree86tm, KDE,
  ISDN4Linux, ALSA and USB. The company name is pronounced "SUE-zuh." The
  web site is http://www.suse.com.
  
  
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  Note:  VA Linux Systems and SourceForge are trademarks of VA Linux
  Systems, Inc.  Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
  All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
  
  
  
CONTACT:

VA Linux: 

Eureka Endo
VA Linux Systems
(408)542-5754
eureka@valinux.com


SuSE:

Christian Egle 
ce@suse.de
SuSE GmbH 
Schanzaeckerstr. 10 
90443 Nuernberg 
T: +49-(0)911-7405344      
F: +49-(0)911-7417755