All the distributions listed on this page are either in the SUSE ecosystem
- The package format is RPM
- The package manager is ZYpper
The most popular distributions on the page are
- OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
- OpenSUSE Leap
The following distributions are in the SUSE ecosystem
- OpenSUSE Tumbleweed - POPULAR
- This is the rolling release upstream version of OpenSUSE
- KDE Plasma is the main WM - It is beautiful!
- Preferred for laptops
- Snapshots allow rolling back changes
- The YAST installer is exceptional
- community
- I tested this distro. and I think it is attractive and assembled extremely well. This is one of my favorite distributions, but I am not using it because I am more familiar with Debian DEB packages than with Zypper RPM packages. Compared to the other 2 corporate desktop OS distros (Fedora and Ubuntu) I feel that OpenSUSE is the most refined.
- SLE SUSE Enterprise Linux
- Oldest Linux Distro #3 after Debian
- Germany
- Downstream of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
- Two flavors
- Server (SLES) for servers and mainframes
- Desktop (SLED) for workstations and desktop computers
- Gnome, IceWM
- OpenSUSE Leap - POPULAR
- This is the point release version of OpenSUSE
- This is SLE plus extra packages
- KDE Plasma is the main WM
- The German government has adopted OpenSUSE with IBM
- Gecko
- Offers both point and rolling releases
- Downstream of OpenSUSE
- Will not see new releases