Sometimes something will still run on an unsupported platform - sometimes unsupported means just that the company doesn’t offer support on using it on that platform if you have troubles. Other times, though, it means that it does not work at all there. which on is the case for the SUSE 11.0 ?
Unsupported means that its never been officially tested.
often newer distros will break because CUDA and gcc 4.3 don’t always get along at the moment, but I can’t remember if that’s the case with Suse 11 or not.