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303 SUSE open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2006.

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 Now Available For Container & VM Needs
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 Now Available For Container & VM Needs

OpenSUSE has released Leap Micro 6.0 as stable for this community rebranded build of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.0. Leap Micro continues to be focused on delivering a very reliable and robust experience for containers and virtual machines.

26 June 2024 - openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 - 1 Comment
openSUSE Leap Micro 6 Reaches Alpha
openSUSE Leap Micro 6 Reaches Alpha

openSUSE's Leap Micro OS that caters to containerized and virtualized workloads by providing a lightweight and reliable foundation is embarking on its next major release. The openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 operating system is now available in alpha form.

15 April 2024 - openSUSE Leap Micro 6 - 6 Comments
openSUSE's "Agama" Next-Gen Linux Installer Plans For A Busy 2024
openSUSE's "Agama" Next-Gen Linux Installer Plans For A Busy 2024

Ahead of the SUSE/openSUSE Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) their engineers have been working on a new web-based OS installer. Originally known as the "D-Installer" and now going by the "Agama" name, this new installer architecture has plans for many architectural improvements this calendar year.

16 February 2024 - Agama Installer - 23 Comments
One Week Left To Vote On openSUSE's New Logo
One Week Left To Vote On openSUSE's New Logo

The openSUSE project has been working on a rebranding to better differentiate between this community open-source project and SUSE itself. There's been work on a logo design contest with just under one week left to vote in this survey.

6 December 2023 - openSUSE Logo - 39 Comments
openSUSE Slowroll Released As A Slower Alternative To openSUSE Tumbleweed
openSUSE Slowroll Released As A Slower Alternative To openSUSE Tumbleweed

The openSUSE Slowroll distribution is a middle-ground between the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux distribution and the SUSE Linux Enterprise aligned openSUSE Leap with its fixed releases. The new openSUSE Slowroll is a rolling-release-like distribution with updates "every one or two months" but with constant bug/security fixes.

11 September 2023 - openSUSE Slowroll - 51 Comments
SUSE To Be Taken Private By Its Largest Shareholder
SUSE To Be Taken Private By Its Largest Shareholder

The SUSE organization has changed hands many times over the years... From being its own independent company to the notable acquisition by Novell two decades ago. Over the past decade SUSE has changed hands between Attachmate, Micro Focus, EQT Partners, and then went public back in 2021 on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Now two years later it is being taken private.

17 August 2023 - Yet Another Corporate Change - 52 Comments
SUSE Announces Its Forking RHEL, To Maintain A RHEL-Compatible Distro
SUSE Announces Its Forking RHEL, To Maintain A RHEL-Compatible Distro

Yesterday Oracle published an interesting announcement and doubled down on their intentions of keeping Oracle Linux compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux following Red Hat's controversial announcement last month. Today is another very interesting response to Red Hat's recent shift, this time from the SUSE Linux folks.

11 July 2023 - SUSE Forking RHEL - 54 Comments
openSUSE Leap 15.6 Now Planned To Provide More Time For ALP
openSUSE Leap 15.6 Now Planned To Provide More Time For ALP

The soon-to-be-released openSUSE Leap 15.5 was going to be the last of the openSUSE Leap 15 series, but now openSUSE/SUSE has decided there will be an openSUSE Leap 15.6 release to allow additional time for their Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) to be developed.

6 June 2023 - openSUSE Leap 15.6 - 19 Comments
openSUSE Tumbleweed Sets Great Example With x86-64-v3 HWCAPS
openSUSE Tumbleweed Sets Great Example With x86-64-v3 HWCAPS

The rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed recently began rolling out optional x86-64-v3 optimized packages for those on roughly Intel Haswell or newer systems and wanting to squeeze out maximum performance from their hardware. The selection of x86-64-v3 packages built by openSUSE Tumbleweed is currently rather limited, but hopefully this major Linux distribution joining the HWCAPS party will lead other Linux distributions to follow suit.

6 March 2023 - x86-64-v3 Optimized Packages - 21 Comments
openSUSE Tumbleweed Rolls Out Optional x86-64-v3 Optimized Packages
openSUSE Tumbleweed Rolls Out Optional x86-64-v3 Optimized Packages

The rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed package has begun rolling out a new "patterns-glibc-hwcaps-x86_64_v3" package that is automatically installed on supported systems and allows for automatically installing "recommended" x86-64-v3 optimized packages where available in the name of enjoying greater performance.

2 March 2023 - openSUSE + x86-64-v3 - 30 Comments
openSUSE's D-Installer Adds LVM & Full Disk Encryption Configuration
openSUSE's D-Installer Adds LVM & Full Disk Encryption Configuration

One of the big undertakings this year within the (open)SUSE camp has been the YaST team's work on D-Installer as their next-generation operating system installer. This week they have published a new prototype of this installer with more functionality now in place.

6 December 2022 - New D-Installer Prototype - 3 Comments
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 Released For Modern, Lightweight Linux OS
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 Released For Modern, Lightweight Linux OS

OpenSUSE has officially released openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 as the newest version of their OS built atop SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 and SLE Micro 5.3 for providing a lightweight, modern OS that is auto-updating, immutable, and provides other distinct features over Tumbleweed or Leap.

17 November 2022 - Leap Micro 5.3 - Add A Comment
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 RC Available For Testing
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 RC Available For Testing

This week the release candidate of openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 was announced for testing. The Leap Micro project is openSUSE's modern and lightweight host Linux operating system intended for edge / embedded / IoT use-cases.

13 November 2022 - Leap Micro Release Candidate - 2 Comments
openSUSE Looking For Help Testing Its New Installer, New Name For "D-Installer"
openSUSE Looking For Help Testing Its New Installer, New Name For "D-Installer"

At the start of the year SUSE's YaST team announced D-Installer as their new web-based distribution installer. Now as we approach the end of the year, D-Installer is ready for more widespread user testing and they are looking for help from the community in testing. Additionally, they are looking for help coming up with a new name for the "D-Installer".

27 October 2022 - D-Installer - 14 Comments
SUSE Publishes First Prototype Of Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP)
SUSE Publishes First Prototype Of Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP)

After SUSE/openSUSE engineers began talking up the Adaptable Linux Platform "ALP" as their next-gen enterprise Linux focus, last week they talked up the imminent release of "Les Droites" as their first public ALP prototype. Today that prototype is now live.

4 October 2022 - Adaptable Linux Platform - 8 Comments
OpenSUSE Tumblewed Planning To Finally End ReiserFS Support
OpenSUSE Tumblewed Planning To Finally End ReiserFS Support

SUSE had been one of the big supporters of ReiserFS two decades ago when it was using the ReiserFS file-system by default but that practice ended in 2006. While SUSE/openSUSE hasn't defaulted to ReiserFS for many years, it has remained an install-time option and retained support for mounting ReiserFS file-systems, but that practice is likely soon ending.

7 August 2022 - Farewell ReiserFS - 19 Comments
SUSE's Adaptable Linux Platform Considers Requiring AVX-Capable x86_64 CPUs
SUSE's Adaptable Linux Platform Considers Requiring AVX-Capable x86_64 CPUs

The SUSE/openSUSE Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) that is being viewed as the eventual successor to SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 is likely to require higher system requirements for x86_64 CPUs. Just how much newer the Intel/AMD support requirement will be has yet to be firmly decided but they are looking at a baseline of "x86-64-v3" that would effectively mean requiring Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX).

6 July 2022 - SUSE ALP Eyes AVX - 40 Comments
openSUSE Leap 15.4 Released
openSUSE Leap 15.4 Released

Following yesterday's release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4, today the openSUSE community has released openSUSE Leap 15.4 that is free and built from the same shared sources as SLE 15 SP4.

8 June 2022 - openSUSE Leap 15.4 - 20 Comments
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 Released - Switches To NVIDIA's Open Kernel Driver, Adds AMD SEV-ES
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 Released - Switches To NVIDIA's Open Kernel Driver, Adds AMD SEV-ES

In kicking off SUSECON, SUSE has announced the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 4. Notable with SLE 15 SP4, SUSE is already switching to using NVIDIA's open-source GPU kernel-mode driver that NVIDIA open-sourced last month and is under active development and has a long road ahead before it's even feasible for upstreaming into the mainline kernel.

7 June 2022 - SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 - 13 Comments

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