Clear Course is Set for openSUSE Leap
The openSUSE release team confirms there will be a successor to Leap 15 and it’s a numerical leap forward.
As many eagerly await the arrival of Leap 15.6 this year, a path for Leap 16 as a successor awaits. Based on SUSE’s new Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) codebase, openSUSE Leap 16 will combine the benefits of an advanced enterprise server distribution and user-friendly maintenance and security that is a hallmark of the Leap series.
Leap 16 is aiming to strike a balance between a cutting-edge and a traditional Linux operating system emerging from SUSE’s development of ALP and initiatives to effectively integrate community packages.
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openSUSE Leap 16 is expected to be released next year based on the Adaptable Linux Platform
The future of the classic "stable" Linux distribution openSUSE Leap was not entirely clear until now. At times, the Tumbleweed-based openSUSE Slowroll, which is currently only available in an experimental version, was considered the successor to Leap. But today openSUSE has officially announced that Leap 16 will be released in 2025 based on the Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP).
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openSUSE Leap 15.6 to Be the Last in Its Current Form
Over the past year, openSUSE has undergone a significant transformation, marking a new chapter with the introduction of the Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP). This shift in focus alters the trajectory of the products they develop and the audiences they cater to.
Following the recent announcement, it’s clear that the era of openSUSE’s well-known model, Leap & Tumbleweed, is ending. Here’s what it’s all about.
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OpenSUSE Leap 16 is coming
The openSUSE project has confirmed that there will be a successor to openSUSE Leap 15, but is not sharing a lot of details at this point.
Maybe chatbot?
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openSUSE Leap 16: A Major Leap Forward for the Linux Landscape
In a significant development in the Linux operating system landscape, the forthcoming release of openSUSE Leap 16 is poised to redefine user expectations from this popular platform. Known for its blend of advanced enterprise server distribution features, easy maintenance, and robust security, the Leap series is about to take a major leap forward, quite literally, with its latest version.
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Could immutability be a Leap too far for openSUSE users?
The future of openSUSE is firming up, but possibly not in the direction that existing users of the distro will enjoy.
The latest update on the future of openSUSE Leap confirms that there will be a release called Leap 16 at some point, alongside a version 6 of the existing Leap Micro … but version 16 will be based on the company's containerized ALP distribution. This means that Leap 16 is destined to be an immutable distro with transactional updates, and thus significantly unlike the current openSUSE distribution. Although the company is promising a migration path, it seems very unlikely to be a simple in-place upgrade.
As we described in detail in last year's pair of features on making Linux safer, immutable distros are the hot new thing in the Linux world. A read-only root file system makes the OS much more resilient against disk corruption, and it is closely coupled with transactional updates, where snapshots mean that if an update causes problems, it can be rolled back, cleanly undone, as if it never happened.