Prague Time
SUSECON 2017
© Images courtesy of Swapnil Bhartiya
SUSE travels to Prague to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
As a SUSECON regular, I recognized the historical importance of this year's SUSECON, which took place on September 25-29 in historic Prague, Czechia at the Hilton Prague hotel. This year, SUSE celebrated its 25th anniversary. SUSE, which is the oldest Linux company, was founded just a few months after Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel.
SUSECON alternates between North America and Europe. This year it was Europe's turn. Prague was an expected location because it is the second largest base of SUSE/openSUSE developers after Nuremberg.
I flew out of DC on September 23rd and arrived in Prague on the 24th. Next morning, I headed for a press conference and one-to-one interviews with SUSE executives.
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