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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the everybody-is-going-green dept.

From the openSUSE news website:

The wait is over and a new era begins for openSUSE releases. Contributors, friends and fans can now download the first Linux hybrid distro openSUSE Leap 42.1. Since the last release, exactly one year ago, openSUSE transformed its development process to create an entirely new type of hybrid Linux distribution called openSUSE Leap.

Version 42.1 is the first version of openSUSE Leap that uses source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) providing a level of stability that will prove to be unmatched by other Linux distributions. Bonding community development and enterprise reliability provides more cohesion for the project and its contributor's maintenance updates. openSUSE Leap will benefit from the enterprise maintenance effort and will have some of the same packages and updates as SLE, which is different from previous openSUSE versions that created separate maintenance streams.

Community developers provide an equal level of contribution to Leap and upstream projects to the release, which bridges a gap between matured packages and newer packages found in openSUSE's other distribution Tumbleweed.

Since the move was such a shift from previous versions, a new version number and version naming strategy was adapted to reflect the change. The SLE sources come from SUSE's soon to be released SLE 12 Service Pack 1 (SP1). The naming strategy is SLE 12 SP1 or 12.1 + 30 = openSUSE Leap 42.1. Many have asked why 42, but SUSE and openSUSE have a tradition of starting big ideas with a four and two, a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday November 05 2015, @05:04PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday November 05 2015, @05:04PM (#258936)

    "Hybrid" "revolutionary" blah blah blah whatever

    *waits patiently for the one guy to post who knows what the fuck the real story is*

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:06PM

    by edIII (791) on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:06PM (#259053)

    I would love to hear the marketing guy passionately deliver this... and then you just say those 4 words :)

    Yeah... I was going to ask the same thing though. About the only interesting thing I can find (which still doesn't explain how this a *new* hybrid) is:

    Leap has a further developed Btrfs filesystem as the default option and an XFS data file system for performance, but there are several other options to choose from. The benefit of Btrfs allows users to take advantage of Snapper. Users can recover the previous status of the system using snapshots. Snapper will automatically create hourly snapshots of the system, as well as pre- and post-snapshots for YaST and zypper transactions, which can be disabled. This new version adds the ability to boot right into a snapshot to recover from corruption of important files on the system (like bash). A powerful system and a powerful tool.

    It may not be new, but it does have some interesting capabilities reading past the initial marketing introduction.

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    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by frojack on Friday November 06 2015, @01:59AM

      by frojack (1554) on Friday November 06 2015, @01:59AM (#259227) Journal

      Marketing guy doesn't even believe that crap.

      Look: this is a cost cutting move by Microfocus (yes, the COBOL compiler company).

      They have essentially folded Opensuse 13.2 back into the paid Suse Linux Enterprise versions, to reduce staff and build time.

      SLED/SLES are paid products. Leap will be Free-ish for a while. But Microfocus is about as mercenary a company as you will find and they will find ways to wring money out of Linux one way or another. They have no real experience in operating systems.

      Opensuse never even tried to provide a for-pay boxed set. There was really no way to throw support their way. I've been buying boxed sets of suse since the days it was spelled SuSE and you could send email directly to the founders. But since Novell then Attachmate then Microfocus took over any pretense of earning its keep disappeared, and this is the result.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @10:43AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @10:43AM (#259376)

        I've been buying boxed sets of suse since the days it was spelled SuSE

        Ah, I see, you were coming late! :-)
        I've used it back when it was spelled S.u.S.E.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:51PM (#259081)

    It means that a Linux distribution has finally followed the FreeBSD method of 1) defining some packages as a "base" system, 2) having a more current userland, and 3) allowing one to update the userland and base independently of each other.

    That's the one thing I miss about FreeBSD. For years, I rocked -STABLE base with -CURRENT ports.