Re: long term support
Well openSUSE and SLED are different products. You cannot convert an openSUSE install into a SLED install just like that. The repositories are different, the software might differ slightly in version, some software might not be officially supported in SLED, and so forth. So it's not a downtime-free conversion.
However given the family similarities you can probably reuse a lot of your config files in /etc.
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