There are thousands of upstream projects that openSUSE pulls from, but
no upstream distribution.
Obviously the kernel is an upstream project, but so is util-linux as an example.
http://freecode.com/projects/util-linux
Some of the upstream projects get lots of support from Redhat, but
that does not make openSUSE derived from Redhat.
As a maintainer of several packages I can say I look at Redhat spec
files if they exist when I start a new packaging effort, but after
that first version my openSUSE version tends to diverge pretty
quickly. That in fact may be one of the best "proofs". Redhat spec
files in general can't build openSUSE packages. A new openSUSE
specific spec file is needed, or if/then logic has to be incorporated
into a single more complex specfile.
Greg
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Greg Freemyer
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Kevin Buchs
For recent releases (not historical past), is OpenSUSE derived from other distributions (I have a coworker who thought all distributions trace back to Red Hat/Fedora and whom I am trying to disavow of this misunderstanding) or is it taking the inputs of the Linux kernel, GNU rest of OS plus building other packages from source distributions from the package maintainers (like LibreOffice). I know that Yum is included, but are there other parts from RedHat?
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