> Is there any reason to choose opensuse vs any other distro that uses rpm?

Not a thing I did before, but if to scratch the surface:

A distro version is a few versions behind: 5.2.7 in Debian, 5.2.10 official, 5.2.0 in OpenSUSE. I would say it does not matter where to take it from, as long as there is not too many dependencies (if there is, have to check whether other packages on the target OS need updating and which way would be less painful).