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Enterprise Linux distributions like SLES and RHEL are an integral part of the Linux distribution landscape, and so are their community variants openSUSE Leap and CentOS (Stream). Yet, while both SLES and RHEL are a reliable revenue generator for SUSE and RedHat, the community editions suffer from a wide range of issues. OpenSUSE Leap is nowadays a superset of SLES, and as such it has a negligible contributor community outside of SUSE in stark contrast to the rolling openSUSE Tumbleweed edition. On the other hand, CentOS Stream is the development platform for the future RHEL, and it has managed to foster a sizable developer community by empowering Special Interest Groups to drive development in various areas. Yet, CentOS Stream has completely failed to attract a significant user base, at least compared to the old CentOS. The spiritual successors of the old CentOS, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux, have more or less completely taken over the old CentOS user base, but they suffer from the lack of volunteer developers, and they also have to deal with the closing of the RHEL source code.

Are community enterprise Linux distributions doomed to either fail to attract a user base or fail to attract a developer community? Are the issues caused the companies behind the community distributions? What can we learn from other distributions in this respect?