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First you need to distinguish paid vs. non-paid variants. Suse has SLES and IBM has RHEL. I am not in the position to compare them. The non-paid variants are
by usr1106 8y ago
First you need to distinguish paid vs. non-paid variants.
Suse has SLES and IBM has RHEL. I am not in the position to compare them.
The non-paid variants are OpenSUSE vs. CentOS. One big difference there is the support life.
CentOS 6 with an ancient 2.6.32 kernel and upstart came out 2011 and is still supported. OpenSUSE releases are supported ~ 1.5 years. There are different opinions whether upgrading from one OpenSUSE release to the next one should be done or not. I typically prefer new installations because they result in cleaner systems. But I also upgraded once an it was painless.
- mseidl 8y agoCentOS is RHEL, just without the branding. SLES and openSUSE share the same core packages. So you get the stable, well tested enterprise stuff.
- rmk2 8y agoCorrect. I'd say openSUSE is more akin to Fedora in that context as both base and development distribution for SLES, much like Fedora is for RHEL (which in turn then "becomes" CentOS).
- usr1106 8y agoThere are 2 OpenSUSE variants, LEAP and Tumbleweed. Their release model has changed maybe 3 years ago. LEAP is exactly the same package versions as in the newest SLES I believe. I would expect them often to be a bit older package versions than Fedora, but I haven't compared recently. Tumbleweed is a leading/bleeding edge rolling release distro. The closest equivalent is Fedora Rawhide.
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