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.
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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?
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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.