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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.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Alias on Friday November 06 2015, @04:26AM
Redhat supposedly hired an ex-MS PR guy a few months ago. I wonder if they loaned him to the Suse people, I mean Novell, I mean back to MS because they're all in bed with MS now anyway.
I think I'm going to be ill.
WTF happened to the open source community?
So far in 2015: Ubuntu and Redhat bend over to the MS shaft in the name of the cloud, (why? MS is irrelevant in the cloud, Azure has yet to beat anyone on anything.) Lots of OSS people notice that systemd is not the Unix way and is not necessary. The systemd incursion marks essentially the first time software has been shoved down the throat of large swaths of the Linux community in what can only be described as a Microsoftian style -- it requires lots of projects, (even the kernel,) to make modifications to support systemd under threats of... irrelevance? Even Linus looks like someone threatened to kill his wife every time someone mentions systemd, and that is scary because Linus has been around the block with this kind of crap before and knows what to expect. The systemd thing was something he wasn't prepared for. There are "social justice warriors" supposedly trying to torpedo FOSS leaders through bogus sexual harassment accusations. Steam appears to be poised to do truly cross-platform app distribution but, (presumably,) back room deals between the GPU companies and some unknown entity, (owner of DirectX special sauce, perhaps,) are preventing the open source community from developing real drivers. Also, most of the Steam stuff relies on Mono, an astroturfed OSS project started by MS a few years ago as the beginning of the brain drain / embrace-extend-extinguish of the Linux world. Google split off the not-evil/less-evil bits into Alphabet from the evil part, which is still called Google but which is subtly, (for now,) different from before. The TPP, quite possibly the most flaming anti-privacy, anti-amateur-technologist, pro-IP-holder power grab ever, is attempting to submarine American interests, (many of the American beneficiaries are tech companies,) into most of the parts of the world that have money and/or resources. The ramifications of the TPP, if enforced, would be enough to write multiple books about. The powers that be no longer even bother trying to scare people into accepting evilness in the name of security or "for the children." Toward the end of 2015, they mine data to figure out which of the 389 different subversive ways they can think of will be welcomed by the subjects and then they either do that or just shove stuff in through various back doors while everyone is busy frothing at the mouth about Hillary Clinton's questionable emails and Donald Trump's ridiculous platitudes. Google and Amazon are both claiming that drone deliveries will happen within the next couple years. This is probably because if the drones say "NSA" on them, people will rightfully go ballistic, but Amazon has a reason to be everywhere and the computational resources to process all the data.
Maybe the open source community just gave up. Maybe everyone decided to go write mobile apps and is now either retired, full of regrets, or too beholden to Google for their livelihood that they don't dare do anything that might make Google start looking for terms of service violations associated with their app.
Given how much of the cloud computing infrastructure is based on open source software, I'd say the open source community got played.
I could go on and on about this stuff, there is plenty more.