text: Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 20:56:17 +0200
  Message-id: <5547C0D1.2030904@opensuse-forums.org>
  Currently , I believe the openSUSE packagers have done a super job with their kernel management, ensuring openSUSE gets a new fairly recent and stable kernel every 9-months or so (timed to the new release).
  This 'not too old' kernel has a significant advantage from a support point of view, which means new hardware support (that is not too ancient) is constantly fed into openSUSE. One does not often need to go to tumbleweed (to get a possibly less tested openSUSE kernel version) to obtain more recent hardware support from a newer kernel.
  ie if SLE has an old kernel, I would be concerned that the hardware support for openSUSE would suffer. Reviewers/new-users installing openSUSE for the first time (who are not aware of Tumbleweed) could stumble and have problems here.