openSUSE Leap 16.0 Pre-Alpha Available, GA Next October

[Jedibeeftrix]

Hello everyone,

Leap is traditional distro in the first place, if you want immutable server with point releases just pick Leap Micro. Do you want Immutable desktop? Pick Aeon.
We've dropped the transactional role from 15.6 in later Beta phase (after the referenced 16.0 article was written), so you can't install Leap 15.6 as transactional starting by 15.6.

There might be experimental Leap 16.0 desktop image if there is enough interest (my personal interest), but take it as an experiment if it happens at all.

The renaming is something I'm personally not very happy about, SUSE does that way too often in my private opinion.
But I have to work with what I get.

Thank you

Lubos
Leap Release Manager

cheers for the update.

how does Leap fit into the traditional factory first model of development if it is both:
a) a derived product of SLES - built from suse build system sources, but;
b) not built to the same immutable model of the commercial SLES product it is derived from.

as a twenty year suse/opensuse/???? user i am recently amazed at the ability to leave me bewildered at my lack of understanding about the product stack!

[lkocman]

b) not built to the same immutable model of the commercial SLES product it is derived from.

I think this is where you're confused. SLES 16 is not immutable. The only immutable distro by SUSE is SL Micro respective + its Elemental images for Rancher.