openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 Beta Released For Lightweight, Immutable OS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 Beta Released For Lightweight, Immutable OS

OpenSUSE has today made available their Leap Micro 5.3 Beta operating system as the lightweight, immutable OS intended for edge / embedded / IoT use-cases...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Leap-Micro-5.3-Beta

[mazumoto]

Hmm, auto-updating sounds nice. Would this be something I could use for a criminally neglected server that just runs some KVM instances and maybe a backup-solution for those VMs on a "real" server (x86 rackmount thingy like Xeon or Epyc)?

[uid313]

Could this be something for a GNOME or KDE based phone or tablet?

[skeevy420]

Could this be something for a GNOME or KDE based phone or tablet?

I don't think so....I mean, there is no reason you couldn't do that, but Leap Micro doesn't even ship with a GUI. This seems like it'd fulfill mazumoto's use-case more than anything -- a headless system you don't feel like messing with all that often.

AFAICT, this is SUSE's counter to Red Hat's CoreOS. SUSE's counter to Silverblue is MicroOS. It's based on Tumbleweed and offers both GNOME and KDE desktops.

In regards to a phone or tablet OS, MicroOS or Silverblue would probably be a better choices to use as an immutable OS base since they come with graphical support.