You would think they would publish the srpms of SLES so there could be a RHEL ty...

fariszr · on July 11, 2023

OpenSUSE Leap is just that, it uses binaries directly from SLES

Vogtinator · on July 11, 2023

It's not just binary compatible - it uses the SLES binaries directly

fariszr · on July 11, 2023

Thanks, updated.

never_inline · on July 11, 2023

I believe it's more like

* Suse releases a new distro, Purple Weed, rebased last public code of RHEL.

* With some reverse engineering effort or whatever, they provide migration path from RHEL to Suse Purple Weed ™. - for next few releases of RHEL.

* They expect customers to migrate to Suse Purple Weed ™ from RHEL (or clones), within a few versions.

Instead of RHELs proprietary-ish branch, they want their branch to take over and become defacto standard.

I guess.