openSUSE has released a beta of Leap 16, the stable, point-release version of the Linux distro that is based on SUSE L𝄹inux E🍸nterprise 16.

openSUSE has a popular line of Linux distros, each of which fills a specific roll. Tumbleweed is the organization’s rolling release distro that serves as the upstream for SUSE Enterprise Linux. Slowroll is also a rolling release, but at a slower cadence than Tumbleweed, releasing security and major bug fixes immediately, while holding other updates back for a few weeks to ensure stability. Leap, meanwhile, is the enterprise-grade, point-release, akin to Ubuntu or Debian.

With the , there are a number of significant changes to the distro, including being “built from SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 and its new base, SUSE Linux Framework One (formerly ALP).”

Framework One

SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 brings a substantial change with its , w🔜hich Leap 16 inherits.

Framework One: As a result, a new unified workflow, including a new approach to software lifecycle management and delivery, is required to support SUSE Linux 16. Not only it but also its multiple derivatives and use cases keeping the coherence that enterprise linux must have. With SUSE Linux Micro 6.X, and now with SUSE Linux 16, we merge all branches into a unified structure and methodology to build Linux. This ‘Framework One’ is our new way of building SUSE Linux, with all subsequent options becoming products of this framework. For example, this “Framework One” allows that, from SUSE Linux 16.1 onwards, SUSE Linux Micro innovation will be merged a🐲nd delivered as part of an immutable/transactional mode on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16. This provides a flexible common foundation easier to support and certify. As a consequence it leads to a wider number of certifications and more efficient processes. We will also approach each set o🦹f packages providing a capability with a time span that makes sense for users and customers. This is one of the beauties of SUSE Linux Framework One, the possibility to keep an innovative Linux having different versions of different packages available, enabling the core OS to have the longest support lifecycle.

Yast Deprecation

Yast (Yet Another Setup Tool) has been one of the hallmark features of o𒁃penSUSE for years. The tool is a callback to a time when many distros included some type of GUI system management tool before the desktop env💫ironments started providing the same functionality.

Yast gives users the ability t🍸o do everything from install and remove software to perform functions that would normally be handled in the terminal, all from a GUI.

Wit🐻h Leap 16, Yast is being deprecated, with its functionality split between💯 Cockpit and Merlin. Cockpit will handle system admin functions, while Merlin will handle software installation and management.

Improved Zypper

Another major feature of Leap 16 is experimental support for parallel downloads in 🦩Zypper. For years, Zypper has been one of the slowest package managers in Linux, largely because it only🧸 had sequential downloading.

Leap 16.0 now uses RIS-base⭕d repository management through the openSUSE-repos package and is a system already familiar to users of Leap Miඣcro 6.0.

Leap 16.0 distribution repositories are now split per architecture, which makes metadata smaller and refreshes faster. Aside from that Leap 16.0 Beta ꦫcontains experimental support for parallel package downloads in Zypper, speeding up installs and updates`. We expect the feature to become stable and therefore enabled by default before the release.

SELinux

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Much like Tumbleweed, Leap 16 makes the transition frℱom AppArmor to SELinux for mandatory access control (MAC). While AppArmor is used by Ubuntu and Debian, SUSE a✨nd Fedora both use SELinux.

Leap 16.0 follows SUSE Linux Enterpriꦿse in using SELinux by default. Unlike SLE, openSUSE also♛ provides AppArmor, thanks to active community contributions.

You can switch from SELinux to AppArmor if preferred. Steam users may want to follow this unཧtil gaming-targeted SELinux policies land in 16.0 Beta.

Misc Changes

There are a number of additional changes.

• Agama installer is used by default
• Wayland only
• SysV init support dropped
• Machines with x86_64-v2 is now a minimal requirement

Conclusion

Leap 16 is a significant upgrade, one that brings the usual incremental changes, as well as significant changes to the very 𓆏core of Leap, modernizing it and bringing it more in line with SUSE Enterprise Linux.