On 24.01.2017 17:44, Christopher Myers wrote:
IMO, the biggest fault that openSuSE has is that it doesn't have an LTS version like other vendors do. I understand that if you want a long-term version, you're supposed to head to either SLES or SLED. But those platforms don't have the "end-user" feel of openSuSE, nor do they have all of the same packages or package versions available to them. (For example, SLES12 comes with PHP 5.5 released in 2014, and the latest is 7.0.14.) This is especially painful with regard to libraries, and means that some software simply cannot work on the enterprise SLE versions because they only support old versions of core libraries.
SLES12 comes with the "core" and "modules". The core versions change slowly and only on service pack updates. The module's versions may change faster. The "web and scripting module" got recently a update to php7 while php5 is still supported.