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openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Public Beta Testing with Agama Installer, Linux 6.12 LTS
Based on the next-generation solutions from SUSE called Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) and powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, openSUSE Leap 16 is designed to offer users a balanced operating system that includes cutting-edge software on top of a traditional Linux-based operating system and uses the new Agama installer.
Agama is a new installer developed by the same team that created the YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) setup and configuration tool for openSUSE. The Agama installer is designed to offer re-usability, integration with third-party tools, and can also be used to install the openSUSE Tumbleweed, Slowroll, and MicroOS editions.
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openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Beta - openSUSE News
Members of the openSUSE Release Team are excited to announce that the Leap 16 Beta is now available for testing!
Like its predecessor Leap 15.6, the Leap 16.0 version continues the tradition of a stable, classic Linux distribution; it’s built from SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 and its new base, SUSE Linux Framework One (formerly ALP).
You can download both online and offline Agama installer images from get.opensuse.org. Leap remains the project’s traditional, full-featured Linux distribution.
Meanwhile, people looking for a modern, immutable system with point releases, take a look at our Leap Micro instead; It’s designed for containerized and virtualized workloads.
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openSUSE Leap 16 Beta Launches with Wayland and SELinux by Default
I rarely cover beta releases since the final stable versions often differ from the earlier alphas and betas. But there are always exceptions—especially when talking about one of the most respected and time-proven names in the Linux world, openSUSE, and more specifically, their rock-solid Leap 16 release.
Powered by kernel 6.12 and built on the foundation of SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 and the brand-new SUSE Linux Framework One (formerly known as ALP), the upcoming Leap continues the distribution’s “classic yet current” philosophy, with the final stable release scheduled in mid-October.
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Development Release: openSUSE 16.0 Beta
The openSUSE project has announced the availability of openSUSE 16.0 beta, a development snapshot previewing features coming in the next version of the project's stable Leap branch. Many of the key changes focus on removing legacy packages. [...]
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openSUSE Releases Leap 16 Beta
openSUSE has released a beta of Leap 16, the stable, point-release version of the Linux distro that is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 16.
openSUSE has a popular line of Linux distros, each of which fills a specific roll. Tumbleweed is the organization’s rolling release distro that serves as the upstream for SUSE Enterprise Linux. Slowroll is also a rolling release, but at a slower cadence than Tumbleweed, releasing security and major bug fixes immediately, while holding other updates back for a few weeks to ensure stability. Leap, meanwhile, is the enterprise-grade, point-release, akin to Ubuntu or Debian.
With the beta of Leap 16, there are a number of significant changes to the distro, including being “built from SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 and its new base, SUSE Linux Framework One (formerly ALP).”