openSUSE does have a codename

Posted Mar 30, 2012 18:04 UTC (Fri) by benoit_monin (subscriber, #61854)
Parent article: Fedora release naming "is a" bit contentious

The naming scheme is based on shades of green and was introduced in 11.2 (emerald) and current version 12.1 is asparagus.

It's used in the artwork, for example as the base color of the boot splash and desktop background. The codename can also be found in /etc/issue.