While openSUSE is closely aligned with SUSE as a company, they aren't the exclusive sponsor of this free and open-source Linux distribution with its rolling-release Tumbleweed and Leap stable releases. AMD has been a longtime major supporter of openSUSE and the Fastly content delivery company has been another platinum sponsor too besides SUSE. There are also various other lower-tier sponsors while today the openSUSE Project put out a call for further corporate sponsorship.

The openSUSE Project published a blog post today to attract interest in more corporate sponsorship. The post argues that sponsoring openSUSE benefits the whole ecosystem due to their work on the Open Build System and openQA and the like. Plus if the sponsor provides hardware to the project, the vendor can benefit from increased silicon QA/testing.

For those vendors pursuing alternative CPU ISA architectures, sponsoring openSUSE can also help "grow the architecture" for the chips they are selling. Other arguments for sponsoring the openSUSE Project include faster driver delivery, strategic influence on neutral ground, developer mindshare, ISV reach, and more.

Those curious about the openSUSE call for greater corporate sponsorship can read the post in full via the openSUSE blog . Those curious about current sponsors of the openSUSE Project can find them listed on the sponsor page .