Correct me if I’m wrong, I’m still on the learning path of Linux. But there doesn’t seem to many forks of OpenSuse? There are a bunch of forks of Arch, Fedora and Debian, but why not OpenSuse? Is it a license problem or something else?

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    2 months ago

    Your infographic shows that suse was rebased off jurix and redhat after it stopped being Slackware based.

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      2 months ago

      That’s rpm, suse Linux 1.0 was never built off the same source or installer that Redhat Linux was.

      Do you have a historical example where any suse distribution used redhat based source? As opensuse as I said only used the rpm package manager, it never used any other components of a redhat derived install.

      Source: I work there and can find zero redhat strings in any old source code from that era, the old greybeards took offense to the implication that suse was ever based on redhat other than using rpm which at the time was about it for packaging.

      All they did was start to use rpm instead of tar for packaging.