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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.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by frojack on Friday November 06 2015, @01:59AM
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.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @10:43AM
Ah, I see, you were coming late! :-)
I've used it back when it was spelled S.u.S.E.