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openSUSE Leap 15.3 Reaches Beta Build Phase

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 3rd of March 2021 02:25:16 PM Filed under
SUSE

openSUSE Leap has entered into the beta release phase today for its 15.3 minor version.

This openSUSE Leap 15.3 version is a solidified release that focuses more on the building of the distribution rather than refreshing the distribution?s packages, but there are some significant changes to the distribution.

Many of the packages will remain the same as those in openSUSE Leap 15.2 with a bit of hardware enablement and security backports. An updated version of glibc brings some Power10 support and the Xfce desktop users will have the new 4.16 version. The distribution also gains adds s390x architecture.

The biggest change for this release is how Leap is built and its relationship with SUSE Linux Enterprise. Leap transitioned to a new way of building openSUSE Leap releases in the fall of 2020 through a prototype project called Jump. The Jump prototype was used as a proof of concept, but no longer exists; it did prove to work at building a distribution and bringing the code streams of both openSUSE Leap and SLE closer together. The proof of concept was implemented for building the release of openSUSE Leap 15.3 as seen in the beta release today. Building Leap on top of binary packages from SLE, which was part of the rationale for the Jump prototype, allows for easy development on a community release to be put into production on an enterprise release should the need arise.

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Also: openSUSE Leap 15.3 Beta Begins - Phoronix

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Closing the Leap Gap

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 3rd of March 2021 05:15:00 PM.
  • Closing the Leap Gap

    Today the openSUSE project announced the start of the public beta phase for openSUSE Leap 15.3. This release is an important milestone for openSUSE and SUSE, our users and customers: Leap 15.3 is the first release where openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise share the same source code and use the exact same binary packages. Let’s have a look at the following picture to examine what this means in detail.

    [...]

    We won’t go into details on how this works under the hood in this post. If that’s what you’re looking for, see our blog series on How SUSE Builds its Enterprise Linux Distribution. Today, we will focus on what this change means for you as an end user. In a nutshell, while portability (i.e. the ability to run software built for openSUSE Leap on SLE or vice versa) between SLE and Leap was previously very likely, it is now almost guaranteed. You can migrate from openSUSE Leap to SUSE Linux Enterprise without having to reinstall anything, and this is a big deal. Let’s take a look at a couple of examples.

SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 3 Public Beta is out!

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 3rd of March 2021 05:18:03 PM.

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 3 Public Beta is out!

    Starting with SP3, we are now offering packages pre-built binaries from SLE in addition to the sources we were previously providing to openSUSE. This means that openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise are closer together than before, thus easing the migration from openSUSE Leap to SLES.
    This article will tell you more about how openSUSE and SLE were made in the past years but also the important changes with openSUSE Leap 15.3 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 3.

openSUSE Leap 15.3 Enters Beta Phase

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 3rd of March 2021 10:10:00 PM.

  • openSUSE Leap 15.3 Enters Beta Phase As an Exciting CentOS Alternative With Xfce 4.16, Power10 Support, and More

    openSUSE is unquestionably an interesting distribution. We also have a separate article listing some compelling reasons to use openSUSE.

    While it’s been almost a year since openSUSE 15.2 Leap released with a focus on containers, it is almost time for the next minor release.

    Now, openSUSE announced the 15.3 minor version reaching the beta phase, meaning – it is up for testing. Even though it is technically a minor release, there are some significant changes worth noting along with some updates and improvements.

    Let me briefly highlight those for you.

openSUSE beta brings it in line with SUSE's enterprise product

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 3rd of March 2021 11:57:51 PM.

  • openSUSE beta brings it in line with SUSE's enterprise product

    The community Linux distribution openSUSE has released a beta of its stable version 15, known as Leap, bringing it on par with the commercial SUSE Linux Enterprise version 15 Service Pack 3 as far as packages are concerned.

    According to Douglas DeMaio, a leader of the openSUSE project, the idea behind this is to make it easier for those who want to switch to the enterprise distribution to carry out tests before they decide whether to go ahead or not.

    openSUSE also has a rolling branch of development known as Tumbleweed which can be used by those who want the latest software packages.

    Announcing the release of the beta, Tim Imich, openSUSE developer community architect, wrote in a blog post: "This release is an important milestone for openSUSE and SUSE, our users and customers: Leap 15.3 is the first release where openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise share the same source code and use the exact same binary packages."

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