OpenSUSE 15.1

This project has been in a state of unrest for some time now, and Mayank Sharma wonders if that has left a mark on the distro.

- Mayank Sharma

We last reviewed openSUSE more than three years ago and the distro has had some interesting updates and changes since then. It has reorganised, and starting with the 15.0 release last year, SUSE’s enterprise version and openSUSE are now being developed in tandem from the ground up.

The openSUSE distro maintains two main branches. There’s a rolling release dubbed Tumbleweed, pitched at developers and experienced users. Leap is the regular distro that comes out once a year, and because of its alignment with SLE will not get any major architectural changes for several years, unlike its closest competition Fedora and Ubuntu. This apparent sluggishness helps openSUSE Leap pitch itself as a much more stable option that claims to be better suited for running servers and enterprise desktops.