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Open source enterprise software provider SUSE is set to make two of its Linux distributions, the openSUSE Leap community edition and SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) fully binary compatible when it releases its SLE Service Pack 3 (SP3) in July. The idea is to, among other things, both improve support for openSUSE as it benefits from the same service pack as SLE and to help facilitate an enterprise migration from openSUSE Leap to SLE.

Since SLES 15 SP3 will deliver “full binary compatibility between openSUSE Leap and SLE, users might be encouraged to switch away from CentOS Stream to benefit from more stable release updates,” Basil said.

Since SLES 15 SP3 will deliver binary compatibility between openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise and with CentOS no longer providing a binary compatibility with Red Hat’s commercial Linux distribution, “SUSE will introduce programs and services to solve this so those users can migrate to openSUSE Leap,” Basil said. The core between openSUSE Leap and SLE will share “exactly the same set of packages,” Michal Svec senior product manager at SUSE, said during SUSE’s recently held SUSECON 2021 conference.