I’m just used to thinking of Fedora and Debian as the two major different kinds of Linux (with smaller distro families like Slackware and Gentoo being kinda off to the side).
It was the fact that they used RPMs that made me think they were a Red Hat derivative. I didn’t care for Red Hat (I ran Slackware back then, switching to Debian around Hamm) so I never gave them a chance. Pity.
I would say it’s more that we kind of don’t know where it belongs in the family tree. There are two big families (Debian, Fedora), three small families (Slackware, Gentoo, Arch), a bunch of singletons . . . and OpenSUSE, which could belong to either the Fedora or the Slackware family depending on the criteria applied.
Everyone always forgets about OpenSUSE :(
That is a shame as Tumbleweed is awesome!
It never caught on in the states.
IIRC it was originally based on Red Hat (back when Red Hat Linux was a thing), wasn’t it?
Originally, it started as Slackware translated to German.
So it did. That’s interesting.
It was the fact that they used RPMs that made me think they were a Red Hat derivative. I didn’t care for Red Hat (I ran Slackware back then, switching to Debian around Hamm) so I never gave them a chance. Pity.
I would say it’s more that we kind of don’t know where it belongs in the family tree. There are two big families (Debian, Fedora), three small families (Slackware, Gentoo, Arch), a bunch of singletons . . . and OpenSUSE, which could belong to either the Fedora or the Slackware family depending on the criteria applied.