Quoting Hubertus Haniel
I don't know about everybody else but I personally find the standard of SuSE updates has dropped since Novell have got the fingers in the pie.
I've noticed this, too. From tripwire not even being tested if it could run without segfaulting, to the ongoing kernel issues, it's reached the point where I don't have enough faith in SuSE to automatically install security patches. For two years, when I ran RedHat, I had a machine that would download and install patches from them without me having to even bother thinking about it. Since RedHat told all small businesses to take a flying leap, I moved to SuSE, and even just in this time the quality of the updates has sunk dramatically. I really like SuSE's layout and distro, but if these security updates continue to be released in such a slipshod manner, I doubt I'll be able to justify continued use to my boss. He'd already rather we move to Debian so that he doesn't have to pay at all...