A while back I asked about the ROS support on OpenSuse 11.2 and I was told that while there is no current support right now, it isn't that difficult to add official support myself. My need to get it working immediately on OpenSuse might have gone away (I was interested in installing ros on the machines a linux lab at my school for a class next semester) so I won't be getting around to it anytime soon. I copied and pasted Tully's directions from his response to me on Oct 27. If you decide to go through with adding suse support, it would be great if you can keep the list updated on your progress :).
Hi Ben, It should be possible. I don't know how recently people
have tried those instructions. The biggest challenge you will face is
that I see that SuSE is not detected by rosdep, and I don't think that
there are any definitions of rosdeps for SuSE either.
I would recommend option 2. It is a little bit more work, but that
likely will save you work in the long run since you don't have to
disable rosdep checking. Also the incremental difference in effort is
small and a lot of SuSE users would be appreciative.