[thewrinklyninja]

You would think they would publish the srpms of SLES so there could be a RHEL type clone but based on SUSE and fill that void.

[fariszr]

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

https://www.zdnet.com/article/suse-bridges-the-gap-between-o...

[Vogtinator]

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

[fariszr]

Thanks, updated.

[never_inline]

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.