What are these projects ? I read the sites a little bit, the philosophy I understand, but I thought that Suse was open now anyway. Why is there a for called OpenSuse?

Are these separate distros that offer downloads of ISO images to burn and install ?
If so, have you had any exposure to them, good or bad? * I am really just trying to decide which download to burn and install: Suse, Open Suse, or Super Suse. My computer might benefit from the Super optimizations. I am not sure that I am understanding the relationship between the three, however...

Thanks,

B.

Version 10 of the SuSE distribution comes in two forms. The first form is free to download. You get the Linux operating system, YaST, and other things that you would expect to get with any distribution. The retail version provides everything that is in the free version plus some licensed applications, installation support over the telephone, and a few other perks.

Here we go again!

There are 3 stable versions of SUSE10 .

Retail (100 euros?) - Double-layer DVD, 5 cds, 2 manuals, official support from Novell

Suse10 Eval (FREE) - Single-layer DVD or 5 cds, missing some commercial packages and some other things, because single-layer can not hold as much data as the double-layer one.
THIS IS THE ONE I RECOMMEND!
Download from here: http://www.novell.com/products/susel...ions_eval.html

OpenSuse (FREE) - 5cds, crippled stupid little opensource thingy. Ok it has all basic linux packages you need, but it doesn't have acrobat reader, flash,java, mp3-support,...
Everything can be downloaded from opensuse servers.
So if you use this, prepare yourself for some serious downloading...

Live versions can also be downloaded

SUSE - super SUPER is a testbed for anything that makes your SUSE Linux OS perform in a different manner than intended in the more stable and enterprise oriented SUSE Linux tree. This can be a speed improvement geared towards the specialised desktop user or an additional feature that is considered too experimental or dangerous by the main SUSE Linux tree.

SUSE Slick (1cd) SLICK stands for SUPER Lite: Core + Kde, or, if you prefer, Simple LInux: Core + Kde. It is a (potential) project to create a lightweight, desktop-oriented, easy-to-use Linux distribution based on SUSE Linux via the openSUSE community.

Where can one find these SUPER sites?

it is called openSuSE because it contains open source software, and it is itself enitely opensource.

There is also versions of suse aimed at business'. These cost £££ and are work workstations and servers.