openSUSE is still Slackware derivative?

takehora · 05-22-2018, 12:49 PM

Some Japanese consider openSUSE is still Slackware derivative.

https://twitter.com/formalin4/status/998431705080868870

https://www.kagoya.jp/howto/rentalse...xdistribution/

http://note.kurodigi.com/linux-distro-2017/

https://forest.watch.impress.co.jp/d...s/1072019.html

Do you consider openSUSE is still Slackware derivative?

a4z · 05-22-2018, 01:11 PM

well, SuSE has it's history, and this includes Slackware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_Linux#History

calling todays (open)SUSE distribution a Slackware derivate is imho a bit too much, there is not too much from Slackware in openSUSE or SuSE

wagscat123 · 05-30-2018, 10:36 PM

It shares some ancient heritage with it via Jurix, but not really. Quite superficially there's a lot of ncurses involved if you use text based Yast.

If you load up a version of YaST1 on a really old version (<8.0), the interface is somewhat reminiscent of the Slackware installer. But then so is the bootloader, init system, etc.