openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 and openSUSE for lazy developers
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OpenSUSE ☛ openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025: Call for Host
The openSUSE.Asia Summit is an annual openSUSE conference in Asia and a great opportunity for contributors and enthusiasts from Asia to come together and meet face-to-face. The event focuses primarily on the openSUSE distribution, its applications for personal and enterprise use, and open source culture.
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LWN ☛ Aeon: openSUSE for lazy developers
The openSUSE project recently announced the second release candidate (RC2) of its Aeon Desktop, formerly known as MicroOS Desktop GNOME. Aside from the new coat of naming paint, Aeon breaks ground in a few other ways by dabbling with technologies not found in other openSUSE releases. The goal for Aeon is to provide automated system updates using snapshots that can be applied atomically, removing the burden of system maintenance for ""lazy developers"" who want to focus on their work rather than desktop administration. System-tinkerers need not apply.
The idea behind Aeon, as with other immutable (or image-based) Linux distributions, is to provide the core of the distribution as a read-only image or filesystem that is updated atomically and can be rolled back if needed. Google's ChromeOS was the first popular Linux-based desktop operating system to follow this model. Since the release of ChromeOS a number of interesting immutable implementations have cropped up, such as Fedora Silverblue, Project Bluefin (covered here in December 2023), openSUSE's MicroOS (covered here in March 2023), and Ubuntu Core.