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openSUSE offers Leap, an LTS-style distribution that shares the SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) code base, effectively making Leap a non-commercial, enterprise-grade version of the operating system. Users who prefer more up-to-date free software can use the rolling release distribution Tumbleweed. Users can also use the Open Build service. Furthermore, the flexibility of openSUSE makes it easy to reuse specific targets such as running a web or email server.

Like most Linux distributions, openSUSE includes both a standard graphical user interface (GUI) and a command line interface. OpenSUSE users can choose multiple GUIs for desktop environments such as GNOME, KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, LXQt, Xfce. openSUSE supports thousands of software packages across the spectrum of free software / open source development.

The operating system is compatible with a wide variety of hardware on a variety of instruction sets, including ARM-based single-board computers. Examples include Raspberry Pi 3 and Pine64 on the ARMv8 platform also known as aarch64, Banana Pi and BeagleBoard on the ARMv7 instruction set, and the first iteration of the Raspberry Pi on the ARMv6 ISA. RISC-V, PowerPC (PPC64 and PPC64le) and S390 are also supported.

The goal of the openSUSE project is:

• Make openSUSE the easiest Linux distribution for anyone to obtain and the most widely used open source platform.
• Provide an environment for open source collaboration that makes openSUSE the world’s best Linux distribution for new and experienced Linux users.
• Dramatically simplify and open the development and packaging processes to make openSUSE the platform of choice for Linux hackers and application developers.

With the launch of the openSUSE project, openSUSE is now developed in an open model – public development builds, releases and sources will be posted here frequently, and you’ll have access to our Bugzilla database for bug reporting. You can also sign up for special interest mailing lists to ensure you always get the latest news about the openSUSE project and the openSUSE distribution.

openSUSE tools:

• Open Build Service (OBS)
  • Our build tool builds all our packages as well as those for SUSE Linux Enterprise, Arch, Debian, Fedora, Scientific Linux, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu and more.
• open QA
  • Automated testing for *any* operating system, which can read the screen and control the test host the same way a user does.
• By ST
  • The best/only comprehensive Linux system configuration and installation tool.
• Kiwi
  • Create Linux images for deployment on real hardware, virtualization, and now even container systems like Docker. Kiwi is the engine that builds the openSUSE release images.

What is new

Complete release notes here.