SuSE was based on RedHat 5-6?? [LWN.net]

SuSE was based on RedHat 5-6??

Posted Aug 10, 2005 15:55 UTC (Wed) by vblum (guest, #1151)
In reply to: Where is Ubuntu by drag
Parent article: The Debian Core Consortium launches

Really - in which era? I thought SuSE was rather old, as a company ...

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Posted Aug 11, 2005 1:22 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (guest, #4458) [Link] (1 responses)

No, SUSE was never a Red Hat derivative. It just uses the RPM package format too, that is the only common point.

Posted Aug 11, 2005 6:50 UTC (Thu) by kstalker (guest, #31739) [Link]

Suse is based on Slackware, but uses rpm.Have a look at the wiki :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suse