Health Check: openSUSE Community before code

LXer's Scott Ruecker groups Richard Hillesley's piece under "Groups: Slackware, SUSE, Community, Linux".

A more appropriate grouping could have best replaced Slackware with Fedora and Red Hat. Indeed, Hillesley specifically writes in the section significantly entitled 'A tip of the hat':

Quoting:Fedora, the other community with which openSUSE might be compared, is to Red Hat Enterprise Linux what openSUSE is to SUSE Linux, only more so, and stands for pushing technology and the state of the art of free software.

One could conceivably argue that Slackware is to Vector Linux and Zenwalk what openSUSE is to SUSE Linux simply in terms of the former being the base distro of the latter two. Yet Hillesley does not bring up this verisimilitude, and perhaps justly so.

Another debatable omission is Hillesley's decision to directly avoid comparing Debian GNU/Linux with Ubuntu in the same light as he does in comparing openSUSE with SUSE, although he does write:

Quoting:openSUSE does not have the marketing appeal of Ubuntu, and no-one from openSUSE has been to outer space, but that probably isn't the point. Ubuntu is a refinement and a synthesis of what is already out there, and is the perfect Linux desktop for certain kinds of user. openSUSE, like Debian and Fedora, is more about appealing to the instincts of the developers who make the changes that make it to the more streetwise distributions - some of which, like Compiz and Network Manager, have had their origins among SUSE developers, and have been vital to the user appeal of other distributions. openSUSE is an important element in the wider Linux community.

Maybe Ubuntu should also have been included in this posting's Groups categories, but Slackware most likely should have been completely omitted due to its sole mention in the first paragraph of Hillesley's piece!