SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE's enterprise distro, certified for SAP and mainframes, with yearly minors and a long lifecycle. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- SUSE
- Created by
- —
- First release
- 2000
- License
- GPL and other free licenses
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Paid
- Website
- https://www.suse.com/products/server
- Family
- SUSE
- Based on
- Independent
- Package manager
- zypper
- Package format
- rpm
- Release model
- Fixed releases
- Release cadence
- A minor every year, in November
- Support lifetime
- 2 years per minor, at least 10 per major, up to 16 with extended support
- Init system
- systemd
- Default desktop
- None (GNOME optional)
- Immutable
- No
- Made for
- Server, Cloud
- Backed by
- A company
- Beginner friendliness
- 3 of 5
- Architectures
- x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, s390x