What is SUSE?
SUSE (pronounced soo-sah) is a multinational company that offers enterprise-grade open source products based on Linux technologies. The company was originally based in Germany, but it is now headquartered in Luxembourg, with offices located all over the world.
SUSE is similar to Red Hat. It assembles the Linux kernel and other open source components into a stable, full-featured Linux operating system (OS) available for purchase.
SUSE offers multiple editions of its OS to support different types of environments and workloads. For many organizations, buying a fully assembled Linux-based platform is preferable to investing the time and resources in installing and maintaining a free, open source Linux distribution. With a purchased product, customers get a stable system that comes with documentation and tech support. In some cases, this can result in a lower cost of ownership compared to implementing an unsupported version of the Linux OS.
