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I don't quite get it, is the base SuSE or RHEL? I've always liked SuSE so we will see what will come out of this.

The article says that it's RH userland with an RH-compatible kernel built from SUSE sources:

> All of the userland of the new distro will be built from Red Hat's official Source RPMs (SRPMs), with the exception of the kernel. That comes from SUSE's own SLE enterprise distribution, currently on version 15 SP3, but compiled using a Red Hat-compatible configuration.

Wonder what the particular reason for this is. If you're compiling from RH sources, might as well keep the kernel, no? I'm sure for some compatibility with it is important.

I don't get it why they are not taking the kernel also. To me this seems like a potential conflict/maintenance nightmare. You will have to keep an eye out on all RHEL package updates and SuSE kernel updates.

Long term release kernels are a maintenance nightmare, and have barely any difference in functionality. The maintenance burden of having 1 is already very huge, I don't see why they would add 1 more if what they have already works

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