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On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 03:40:38 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

> On 2024-12-26, 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
>>    The death of OpenSUSE is that it's part of the IBM/RHEL vortex now,
>>    just like CentOS. Using it, you're basically an unpaid beta tester
>>    for IBM. Eventually they won't need that so much - and that entire
>>    distro family will just go away.
> 
> Are you saying that RedHat has bought SUSE?
> I see no reference to this in the Wikipedia articles about SuSE and
> openSUSE.

It's hard to keep track of the shell game from Novell to Attachmate to 
MicroFocus but I believe EQT AB has it now, at least the Enterprise. 

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/german-software-firm-suse-be-taken-
private-by-eqt-16-euros-per-share-2023-08-17/

I don't know if OpenSUSE is upstream of SLE like Rawhide/Fedora are 
upstream of RHEL. No particular reason but I missed the leap from 13.2 to 
Leap and eventually went to Fedora on that box.