Hello to all,

can anyone explain to me what is the difference between suse linux and open suse linux?

Thanks

It looks from your LQ joining date that you may be used SUSE Linux. SUSE Linux Professional\Personal was the SUSE Linux product line from 2002 to 2005. In 2005 SUSE Linux development was handed over to the openSUSE project. By the end of 2006, the name of SUSE Linux was changed to openSUSE to reflect the project creating it and to distinguish it from SUSE Linux Enterprise. The SUSE Linux Enterprise line kept the SUSE name.

SUSE Linux Enterprise is the Linux for businesses with commercial support. It is based on the .1 releases of openSUSE

openSUSE is a community distro sponsored by SUSE* and has a open development process. For users who don't need commercial support. This is what I personally use.

*Last spring, Attachmate acquired Novell and gave SUSE its own brand and company separate from Novell under the Attachmate umbrella.

OpenSUSE is the free version, which is stable and updated regularly.

Novell sell (IMHO reasonable cost) the SuSE Linux Enterprise, not as up to date as OpenSUSE however stable which is essential to many in business, who also need/appreciate Novells various support programs helping fix problems you may come across.



Have computers on both.