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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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[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

SLE is a fork of factory. Leap is based on SLES with community additions, it's why SUSE changing to ALP and dropping desktop support in the new version was such a big thing for the future of Leap.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I stand corrected. I use Tumbleweed so have not kept up to date on that front.

[–] Archaeopteryx@lemmy.nz 9 points 3 months ago

I totally agree with you. openSUSE Tumbleweed is IMHO the most stable rolling release distro out there.

Arch and some of its derivatives are also nice but still not as stable or polished as Tumbleweed.