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Acronis announces software certification and software partnership with SuSE

October 25, 2001

 SuSE Certified Linux Software

South San Francisco, CA (USA) and Nuremburg, Germany — Acronis, a leading company in system software development, today announces that its OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe partitioning and boot management software has been certified with SuSE Linux 7.3. Acronis is also involved as a software partner with SuSE to ensure the optimal performance of OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe with SuSE's default file system, ReiserFS.

"We are very pleased to join SuSE in helping to lead the way in system software for the growing Linux market," said Maxim Tsypliaev, President of Acronis. "With this certification, OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe is the only commercial partitioning software that works seemlessly with SuSE's new 7.3 release right-out-of-the-box!"

Both Acronis and SuSE announced new retail releases of OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe, and SuSE 7.3 Personal and Professional editions, respectively, on Monday, October 22, 2001. This is a key week at retail as several high profile operating systems were also released — and only Acronis' OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe is compatible with each and everyone.


About OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe

OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe gives users the power to safely resize, copy, and/or move hard disk partitions while easily installing and booting multiple operating systems on a single PC. OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe combines everything available in higher priced competing products and adds unique features none of these other competing products have. OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe fully supports Windows XP and both the (Red Hat default) Linux Ext3> and (SuSE) ReiserFS file system. OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe can manages up to 100 operating systems — including all DOS and Windows versions, all Linux distributions, FreeBSD, Solaris, UNIXWARE, BeOS, and more. OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe is also as much as 6 times faster than its competition.

Supported operating systems: Windows XP, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 95 OSR 2, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 3.1, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Linux — ALL distributions, FreeBSD, Solaris, SCO, UNIX, UNIXWARE, OS/2, BeOS, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, PTS-DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS, QNX, B-TRON, and others.

Supported file systems: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, Linux SWAP, and Linux ReiserFS.


About SuSE

SuSE Linux is the international technology leader and solutions provider in Open Source operating system software. SuSE's unique expertise in Linux and its largest development team worldwide dedicated to Open Source software has contributed to the recognition of SuSE as the most complete Linux solution available today. SuSE Linux is a privately held company focused entirely on supporting the Linux community and Open Source development.


About Acronis

Acronis is a leading software development company, a supplier of system software based on unique technologies. Acronis offers storage management, partitioning and multibooting solutions, which are capable to meet requirements to wide range of home and corporate users. Acronis is well positioned to become one of the preferable system solutions vendors by capitalizing on it's strengths:

  • focus customer needs;
  • quality products design;
  • leading technologies;
  • great team;
  • unique business model.

For more information, see Company information at www.acronis.com/company/

 
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