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OpenSUSE seeks a Leap replacement, but will distro community rise to the challenge? (www.zdnet.com)
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Will it be Slowroll or Linarite -- or nothing at all? Programmers are conflicted about where the venerable Linux distro should go from here.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago

Richard Brown is one of the most unsung heroes of the Linux world. SUSEs velocity for getting security patches released has always been impressive and the way Brown always works with the community at every step is testament to SUSE’s success.

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    That is indeed the big question, if there's nobody willing to put in the work, then there's nothing to release.

    Maintaining something like Leap, with the contributor base that has historically existed, isn't sustainable, long term, especially when the upstream is going in a different direction.

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    So, is SUSE not doing a traditional Linux distro anymore? I'm not really understanding this ALP move.

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    Correct, SUSE, the corporation is no longer providing a traditional linux distribution, after the SLE-15 EOL.

    openSUSE, which is a community project, and not controlled by SUSE, is currently debating as to whether we have the contributors interested in doing so, and in sufficient numbers, to continue to provide a traditional point release distribution.

    Tumbleweed (the rolling release) is not going anywhere. The community has not yet decided if the interest and manpower is there to use the ALP sources provided by SUSE to create A) A traditional linux distribution, akin to what Leap currently is, B) a "Slowroll" version of Tumbleweed, that has a slower release cycle, or C) Nothing at all, because there isn't the community there to support the development of it.

    SUSE != openSUSE

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