Why Geeko  And how do you pronouce SUSE    Well there was a competition to name the beast at beginning of   I was just about to join SuSE  as it still was  and folklore and my future boss has it that I picked Geeko as the name   It was all a bit too smart really   A Gecko is a lizard  A Geek is well arent we all in some way  And a major driving force in SuSE was a certain J Geck  And Herr Geck has never forgiven the competition winner since   As to pronouncing SUSE  even the natives in Nurnberg could never really agree though I am bound by honour not to let the cat out of the bag as to what it was called internally  I told lots of people around the world that it was pronounced Sousa  as in John Phillip It lead to amusing references to some of his works And it had the added benefit that the Americans got straight away