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Do anyone Know of any other SuSE based Distros Available, I have searched a few sites & cant seem to find any.
Example a Debian Based Distro are "Kanotix ,Mepis,Paipix,Ubuntu etc" & Gentoo there are "Navyn,Vlos & Kororaa etc"
One of the reasons is I dont want to have to download 5CDs just to install a Distro but am also very Curious whats out there.
Sun had released a few years ago a Linux Enterprise distribution based on SuSE 8.2 (I believe). It was called Sun Java Desktop System (JDS) and I had the pleasure of testing it. Very polished Gnome based desktop with the same easy to use you'd expect from SuSE.
I was "googling" for it and every link I hit at Sun's homepage points JDS as being part of Solaris 10 instead. So I wonder if the old project is dead or simply became a component of Solaris 10 (which I still haven't tried out myself).
Half of the distros out there are Debian based ... Does that make you think?
You are on a roll with promoting Debian. Makes me wonder if they are paying you for the evangelism. Seriously though, if there was some sort of prize for a user promoting their favourite distro, I'd nominate you.
I am really Surprised , Usually these spinoffs so to speak are started I think because of The package Managements like apt-get ,Yum etc being good software tools,I think there are even a few Mandriva spinoffs that use Urpmi like PClinux etc, & a lot of Slackware distros that use tgz,
does it say something about Yast .? Interesting
I think there have been one or two Live uninstallable Suse Distros at one time though
You are on a roll with promoting Debian. Makes me wonder if they are paying you for the evangelism.
If they did, I'd have a job I loved. lol. I know we're supposed to be somewhat distro neutral, and I can see some good reasons for people to choose others, but, cheez Louise!, for the average hobbyist ... sometimes I just can't contain myself.
According to DistroWatch, there are six distros based off of SUSE.
1. kmLinux
2. Linux Caixa Mágica
3. Novell Linux Desktop <-- current owner of SUSE, no surprise there
4. StressLinux
5. Sun Java Desktop System
6. United Linux
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Other SuSE Distros
