openSUSE ALP "Punta Baretti" Prototype Released With More Changes

[Fernseher]

To me, as a simple desktop (=openSUSE Leap) Linux user ALP sounds a bit like overkill...
ALP seems to incorporate heavy container/VM use, how does that precisely work?
After booting the kernel, will there be lots of VM's started? Every systemd service in its own VM?
I can understand, in corporate world this may be of great value, but for a simple user like me this sounds like complexity I don´t need....

[Awesomeness]

GRUB2 will be the new bootloader for ALP.

They had another bootloader initially? Weird.

[Charlie68]

Comunity variant of ALP should have KDE, but nothing existing yet

Why shouldn't it....it's just an evolution of Leap. I don't know the details, but there would be protests if Plasma is not supported, since most openSUSE users use Plasma.
Please note that there are only prototypes for now, which I believe use Gnome because it is used in SUSE.
It seems to me that there will be another Leap service pack, so it's really too soon...

[Leinad]

Any news on desktops? Will ALP support KDE Plasma (like Leap does now)?

Comunity variant of ALP should have KDE, but nothing existing yet

[Leinad]

Depends on what you mean by "the end of Leap".
Leap has always been aligned with SLE (even when it wasn't called Leap), in recent times the binaries have also been unified, so Leap will follow SLE, I don't know if they will change the name given the heavy changes but I think so.
So there will be SUSE and an open version (openSUSE) as it always has been...not forgetting Tumbleweed of course.

Leap was always called Leap. SLE will continue probably next ten or twenty years in maintanance mode, Leap will end in two years.

[Estranged1906]

Any news on desktops? Will ALP support KDE Plasma (like Leap does now)?

[Charlie68]

Is this the end of Leap? Hopefully not...
Apologies if I am completely wrong but I hear very little news about Leap.

Depends on what you mean by "the end of Leap".
Leap has always been aligned with SLE (even when it wasn't called Leap), in recent times the binaries have also been unified, so Leap will follow SLE, I don't know if they will change the name given the heavy changes but I think so.
So there will be SUSE and an open version (openSUSE) as it always has been...not forgetting Tumbleweed of course.

[Jedibeeftrix]

been using tumbleweed too long to ever want to go back to leap.

[drake23]

Recently switched to Tumbleweed on my desktop computer. It's so nice and well put together, I won't miss Leap (even though I was scared initially).

I might even try ALP at some point because it definitely has it's pros.

[Toggleton]

Is this the end of Leap? Hopefully not...

The successor to Leap 15 is likely to come soon after the release of Leap 15.5." SUSE is working on a new "Adaptable Linux Platform" for next-gen SUSE Linux Enterprise and will shift/replace Leap... We're still waiting to hear more public details on the openSUSE Leap impact moving forward. SOURCE https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Leap-15.4

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Would guess we will hear about leap again when they cut the Beta

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap

Wed, Jan 25, 2023 Checkin Deadline for Beta

o Deadline is at 15:00 UTC o Deadline for any package removals from Leap. o Deadline corresponds with SLE 15 SP5 late feature cutoff deadline and Snap 3 prior Public Beta