openSUSE

Overview
openSUSE Linux is created by the openSUSE Project. A community that promotes the use of Linux everywhere, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. openSUSE is the second oldest still running Linux Distributions and shares the base system with SUSE's award-winning SUSE Linux Enterprise products.

Package Management
Uses RPM package manager.

Configurability
openSUSE is a great choice for a new Linux user. It offers an easy to use graphical installer/administration application (YaST) and a tiday base system, easy to tinker with. openSUSE includes everything you need to enjoy the Internet worry free of viruses/spy-ware and to live out your creativity, be it with your photos, videos, music or code.

Uses
openSUSE Leap is fully capable of being used on a desktop PC and laptop.

That is the tour. Ten pages is enough to recognise the names, to know which package manager to expect and to not be surprised by a colleague's machine, and it is not meant to be more than that. The documentation worth reading is whichever belongs to the distribution in front of you, and for the kind of server this course is written around that is the Ubuntu server documentation.