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FYI/FWIW, I think they were preferred for Canadian Government / Shared Services Canada deployments until a few years ago

What's preferred now? I know Canadian schools liked SUSE as well.

I believe SSC currently prefers RedHat, but I'm nowhere near the authoritative source :)

I also heard, that the American continent is more and more Blue Hat focussed and Suse is more a European thing.