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63-397: Its major versions are released at an interval of three–four years, while minor versions (called "Service Packs") are released about every 12 months. SUSE Linux Enterprise products receive more intense testing than the upstream openSUSE community product, with the intention that only mature, stable versions of the included components will make it through to the released enterprise product. It

126-488: A foundation has been under consideration for some time. SUSE as the main sponsor exerts some influence, but the project is legally independent of SUSE. openSUSE is a " do-ocracy " in which those who do the work also decide what happens. This primarily the case with desktop and application development, as the sources of the base packages have been coming from SLE since the switch to the Leap development model. To further unify

189-484: A Linux-based distribution it develops tools like the Open Build Service and YaST . Collaboration is open to everyone. The openSUSE Project develops the openSUSE Linux distribution as well as a large number of tools around building Linux distributions like the Open Build Service , KIWI , YaST , openQA, Snapper, Portus, and more. The project annually hosts free software events . The community's conference

252-432: A community-based Linux distribution called OpenSuSE goes back to a mail of 3 August 2005, in which at the same time the launch of the website opensuse.org was announced. This page was available a few days later. One day later the launch of the community project was officially announced. According to its own understanding, openSUSE is a community that propagates the use of Linux and free software wherever possible. Beside

315-765: A front-end to NetworkManager and Kickoff – a new K menu for KDE Plasma Desktop. Dia (software) Dia ( / ˈ d iː ə / ) is free and open source general-purpose diagramming software, developed originally by Alexander Larsson. It uses a controlled single document interface (SDI) similar to GIMP and Inkscape . Dia has a modular design with several shape packages available for different needs: flowchart , network diagrams , circuit diagrams , and more. It does not restrict symbols and connectors from various categories from being placed together. Dia has special objects to help draw entity-relationship models , Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams, flowcharts , network diagrams, and simple electrical circuits. It

378-543: A package. This means that only the changes between the installed package and the new one, are downloaded. This reduces bandwidth consumption and update time, which is especially important on slow Internet connections. SUSE was a leading contributor to the KDE project for many years. SUSE's contributions in this area have been very wide-ranging, and affecting many parts of KDE such as kdelibs and KDEBase , Kontact , and kdenetwork. Other notable projects include: KNetworkManager –

441-555: A range of architectures e.g. using VirtualBox, VMWare, or Hyper-V. openSUSE Leap currently supports: aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64. SUSE includes an installation and administration program called YaST ("Yet another Setup Tool") which handles hard disk partitioning, system setup, RPM package management, online updates, network, and firewall configuration, user administration and more in an integrated interface. By 2010, many more YaST modules were added, including one for Bluetooth support. It also controls all software applications. SaX2

504-473: A ten year product lifecycle. Newer versions have a thirteen year product lifecycle (SLES 11, 12, and 15). The current support model consists of 10 years of general support from time of First Customer Shipment (FCS), followed by 3 years of Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS), and 3 years more of LTSS Core. Release dates of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server versions: OpenSUSE Also available at install: openSUSE ( / ˌ oʊ p ən ˈ s uː z ə / )

567-487: A unified repository with same source code and binary packages with openSUSE Leap 15.3. Novell's effort on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 was led by Nat Friedman , one of the two founders of Ximian . Nat was aided by a host of former Ximian and SUSE developers, with product manager Guy Lunardi and engineering manager Kelli Frame . Through SUSE Studio Express , users can create custom appliances based on SUSE Linux Distributions including SLED. Options for SLE allow for

630-540: A web interface version of YaST. It can configure settings and updates of the openSUSE machine it is running on. It can also shut down and check the status of the host. ZYpp (or libzypp) is a Linux software management engine. ZYpp is the backend for zypper, the default command line package management tool for openSUSE. The Open Build Service provides software developers with a tool to compile, release and publish their software for many distributions, including Mandriva , Ubuntu , Fedora and Debian . It typically simplifies

693-597: Is 60,000, half of whom frequently perform updates . Thus, the number of Tumbleweed installations had doubled in the last year. Other findings from the statistics are that most installations are done via DVD images. The dominant architecture is x64 . The geographical distribution of users has hardly changed according to these figures. One-third of users are from Germany, 12% are found in the US, 5% in Russia, and 3% in Brazil. For

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756-407: Is a free and open-source Linux distribution developed by the openSUSE project. It is offered in two main variations: Tumbleweed , an upstream rolling release distribution, and Leap , a stable release distribution which is sourced from SUSE Linux Enterprise . The openSUSE project is sponsored by SUSE of Germany; the company released the first version as SUSE Linux in 1994. Its development

819-420: Is a private equity group that develops new companies before divesting them as independent companies. Novell Linux Desktop (NLD) 9 was originally released November 8, 2004, less than a year after Novell's acquisition of SUSE. There were a number of Service Packs (SP's) released for NLD 9. SP1 was released on February 11, 2005 and contained many updates. After that, SP2 was released on August 9, 2005, containing all

882-523: Is advertised as "the perfect Container-Host." MicroOS Desktop was the focus for the 2021 Hackweek . On 31 May 2023, openSUSE announced name changes: the GNOME version of MicroOS is now called Aeon, and the Plasma version is called Kalpa. The Factory project is the rolling development code base for openSUSE Tumbleweed , Factory is mainly used as an internal term for openSUSE's distribution developers, and

945-482: Is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to draw the shape. Dia loads and saves diagrams in a custom XML format which is, by default, gzipped to save space. It can print large diagrams spanning multiple pages and can also be scripted using the Python programming language . Dia can export diagrams to various formats, including: Dia

1008-530: Is an immutable operating system that hosts container workloads, and the Kubernetes certified distribution Kubic, which is a multi-purpose standalone and Kubernetes container operating system based on openSUSE MicroOS. The project is sponsored by a number of companies and individuals, most notably SUSE , AMD , B1 Systems, Heinlein Support, and TUXEDO Computers. The first indication that there should be

1071-402: Is an openSUSE Board which is responsible to lead the overall project. The openSUSE Board provides guidance and supports existing governance structures but does not direct or control development, since community mechanisms exist to accomplish the goals of the project. The board documents decisions and policies. The project is self-organized without a legal structure, although the establishment of

1134-449: Is developed from a common code base with other SUSE Linux Enterprise products. IBM 's Watson was built on IBM's POWER7 systems using SLES. Hewlett Packard Enterprise 's Frontier , world's first and fastest exascale supercomputer runs on SUSE's SLES 15 (HPE Cray OS). SLES was developed based on SUSE Linux by a small team led by Marcus Kraft and Bernhard Kaindl as principal developer who were supported by Joachim "Jos" Schröder. It

1197-535: Is held at a location in Europe and a summit is held at a location in Asia. The project is controlled by its community and relies on the contributions of individuals, working as testers, writers, translators, usability experts, artists, and developers. The project embraces a wide variety of technology, people with different levels of expertise, speaking different languages, and having different cultural backgrounds. There

1260-414: Is preferred by openSUSE users as a desktop system. In the old development model, with each new openSUSE release (13.0, 13.1,...) a new rolling release was set-up, which always received new packages. When the new release was at the doorstep, and Tumbleweed was reset to that release, most packages were newer than the ones in the release, which led to problems. With the switch to Leap, the development model

1323-435: Is pronounced similarly to " open source ". Until version 13.2, stable fixed releases with separate maintenance streams from SLE were the project's main offering. Since late 2015, openSUSE has been split into two main offerings, Leap, the more conservative fixed release Leap distribution based on SLE, and Tumbleweed, the rolling release distribution focused on integrating the latest stable packages from upstream projects. Over

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1386-441: Is self-contained and transactional; it updates itself in an all-or-nothing approach (transactional) and rolls back to its previous stage in case something goes wrong. It runs from a read-only file system, preventing accidental changes and malware attacks. The transactional update does not affect the running system. All software available for Tumbleweed is also available for MicroOS. As it comes with podman Container-Runtime, MicroOS

1449-415: Is the basis for MicroOS and Kubic. Leap is a classic stable distribution approach: one release each year, and in between, security updates and bug fixes. This makes Leap very attractive as a server operating system, as well as a desktop operating system, since it requires little maintenance effort. For the version released in the fall of 2015, the development team settled on the name openSUSE Leap with

1512-533: The Beagle desktop search tool, similar to Spotlight in Mac OS X v10.4. The Xgl+ Compiz support enables a variety of advanced graphical effects in the user interface, such as "application tiling" (similar to Exposé ). Other features include making it easier for Linux beginners to connect digital cameras to the computer and play audio files such as MP3s using Helix Banshee . The version of GNOME included this release

1575-746: The GNOME Shell , LibreOffice , Evolution and many other popular open source packages such as Dia , TigerVNC , and lftp . Like SLES, SLED is based on openSUSE Tumbleweed and shares a common codebase with openSUSE Leap. SLED since version 12 has included a modified version of the GNOME Classic Shell to include a layout with one panel on the bottom of the screen, traditional application menus, and desktop icons for traditional desktop users. It also includes LibreOffice , Mozilla Firefox , and Evolution along with many standard GNOME utilities, such as GNOME Documents and GNOME Files . As well,

1638-565: The Open Build Service , openQA, writing documentation, designing artwork, fostering discussions on open mailing lists and in Internet Relay Chat channels, and improving the openSUSE site through its wiki interface. The openSUSE Project develops free software and tools and has two main Linux distributions named openSUSE Leap and openSUSE Tumbleweed. The project has several distributions for specific purposes like MicroOS, which

1701-477: The OpenAIS cluster communication protocol for server and storage clustering, and Mono 2.0. SLES 11 SP1 (released May 2010) rebased the kernel version to 2.6.32. In February 2012, SLES 11 SP2 was released, based on kernel version 3.0.10. SLES 11 SP2 included a Consistent Network Device Naming feature for Dell servers. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (SLES 12) beta was made available on February 25, 2014, and

1764-521: The Wayland implementation of GNOME the default. SLES and SLED can now also be installed from the same media. SLED 15 offers the same GNOME Desktop options as SLED 12. SLE 15 SP 1 shares a common codebase with openSUSE Leap 15.1. SLE 15 SP 1 includes improvements to the ability to migrate from openSUSE Leap to SLE, increased 64-bit Arm System on a Chip (SoC) supported processor options, transactional updates, and various other features. SLE 15 SP 3 features

1827-777: The YaST Control Center allows end users to make advanced changes to the system from the command line. HP offers business notebooks with SLED 11 preinstalled, under both its own brand and the Compaq brand. Micro-Star International offered MSI Wind Netbooks with SLED 10 preinstalled. Sun Microsystems previously licensed SLED as the basis of the Linux version of Java Desktop System . In March 2018, SUSE Product Manager Jay Kruemcke wrote in SUSE blog that SUSE Linux Enterprise developers have ported it to Raspberry Pi . SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop has been developed while SUSE

1890-472: The Novell OpenOffice.org version was upgraded to version 3.0. SLED continued to include some proprietary components such as Adobe Flash, as well as open-source implementations of closed sourced plugins and runtimes such as Moonlight and Mono . Four service packs were released for SLED 11, with Service Pack 2 notably bringing BtrFS commercial support to the enterprise Linux market and including

1953-650: The SUSE Linux company has focused on releasing the SUSE Linux Personal and SUSE Linux Professional box sets which included extensive printed documentation that was available for sale in retail stores. The company's ability to sell an open-source product was largely due to the closed-source development process used. Although SUSE Linux had always been a free software product licensed with the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), it

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2016-518: The advantage of "streamlined" installs, allowing the user to download only the packages the user feels they need. The ISO has the advantages of an easy install package, the ability to operate even if the user's network card does not work "out of the box", and less experience needed (i.e., an inexperienced Linux user may not know whether or not to install a certain package, and the ISO offers several preselected sets of packages). The initial stable release from

2079-444: The base, the 'Closing-the-Leap-Gap' project has been started, where openSUSE Leap 15.3 will be completely based on SLE's binary packages. There are three main organizational units: Tumbleweed is the flagship of the openSUSE Project. Instead of classical version numbers and periodic updates, a rolling release system is used: updates happen continuously; previous states of the operating system are saved as "snapshots". Tumbleweed

2142-626: The creation of derivative distributions as custom Kiwi and docker containers with customized package choices and configuration parameters. YaST is the primary configuration tool in the SUSE Linux distributions , including SLED. YaST is an installation and administration program which can handle hard disk partitioning, system setup, RPM package management, online updates, network and firewall configuration, user administration and more in an integrated interface consisting of various modules for each administrative task. SUSE Package Hub gives SLE users

2205-582: The deviating version number 42.1. As in the openSUSE version 4.2 from May 1996, which was called S.u.S.E. Linux at the time, the number 42 refers to the question about "life, the universe and everything" in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book series. After that, the basis packages are received from the SUSE Linux Enterprise , while applications and desktops come from Tumbleweed. At

2268-424: The final version was released on October 27, 2014. SLES 12 SP1 was released on December 18, 2015. SP1 added Docker , Shibboleth , Network Teaming, and JeOS images. SP2 was released November 11, 2016. SP3 was released September 7, 2017. The SLES 13 and SLES 14 version numbers were skipped due to superstitions associated with those numbers in certain cultures. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (SLES 15) beta 1

2331-670: The focus on features for a broader range of corporate users by focusing on meeting the needs for basic office workers, positioning SLED as a competitor to Microsoft Windows . Basic office workers were defined in this context as users who need basic desktop functionality, including an office suite , a collaboration client , a web browser , and instant messaging . Novell attempts to meet these needs by concentrating on making these components very compatible with existing enterprise infrastructure, such as Microsoft Office data files, Microsoft Active Directory , and Microsoft Exchange Server or Novell GroupWise collaboration systems. It also included

2394-671: The mainframe world at this time, and innovated by Jürgen Geck and Malcom Yates. Based on customer needs and feedback as well as other evolving Linux based offerings the business model has been reworked by different people in the subsequent years until today. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES 9) was released in August 2004. Service Pack 4 was released in December 2007. It was supported by hardware vendors including IBM , HP , Sun Microsystems , Dell , SGI , Lenovo , and Fujitsu Siemens Computers . SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES 10)

2457-452: The openSUSE Leap 15.3 release, the repository for openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) was merged and now contains the same source code and binary packages. SLE 15 will be supported until 31 July 2028. MicroOS is an immutable, minimalistic, self-maintained and transactional system, which is primarily, but not exclusively, intended for use in edge computing or as container runtime . Some even use it as desktop system. The system

2520-499: The openSUSE Project and closed on 15 March 2019. The openSUSE Project is a community project to create, promote, improve, and document the openSUSE Linux distribution . The openSUSE Project community, sponsored by SUSE and others, develops and maintains various distributions based on Linux . Beyond the distributions and tools, the openSUSE Project provides a web portal for community involvement. The community develops openSUSE collaboratively with its corporate sponsors through

2583-520: The openSUSE Project, SUSE Linux 10.0, was available for download just before the retail release of SUSE Linux 10.0. In addition, Novell discontinued the Personal version, renaming the Professional version to simply "SUSE Linux," and repricing "SUSE Linux" to about the same as the old Personal version. In 2006, with version 10.2, the SUSE Linux distribution was officially renamed to openSUSE, as it

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2646-472: The openSUSE conference held in Nuremberg in 2016, statistics were announced that since the conceptual reorientation with openSUSE Leap 42.1, increasing user numbers had been recorded. According to this, the number of downloads is 400,000 DVD-images per month with an increasing tendency. Each month, 1,600 installations would be added, and 500,000 packages would be installed. The number of Tumbleweed users

2709-591: The option to install packages that are not an official part of the SUSE Linux Enterprise distribution or are more up to date than those included with the latest version of SLE. SUSE Package Hub is unofficial, and the software installed from its repositories does not receive commercial support from SUSE. Currently about 9,000 packages are available from SUSE Package Hub for SLE 12 and 15 with packages available for AArch64, ppc64le, s390x, and x86-64. Legacy versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES 9 and 10) had

2772-460: The packaging process, so developers can more easily package a single program for many distributions, and many openSUSE releases, making more packages available to users regardless of what distribution version they use. It is published under the GNU GPLv2+ . By default, openSUSE uses Delta RPMs when updating an installation. A Delta RPM contains the difference between an old and a new version of

2835-470: The relationship between SUSE (formerly Novell) and the openSUSE project. After the 2014 merger of the Attachmate Group with Micro Focus, SUSE reaffirmed its commitment to openSUSE. EQT AB announced their intent to acquire SUSE on 2 July 2018. There are no expected changes in the relationship between SUSE and openSUSE. This acquisition is the third acquisition of SUSE Linux since the founding of

2898-582: The released updates and bugfixes since August 2004. SP3 was released on December 22, 2005. NLD 9 was based on SUSE Linux 9.1 and offered a more conservative offering of desktop applications for businesses. Its desktop included common end user applications like Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.org. NLD also included software developed by Novell and its 2003 acquisition Ximian , such as the Red Carpet software management tool from Ximian and Novell's system management tool ZenWorks . With SLED 10, Novell increased

2961-422: The repository is synced to the download mirrors and published as openSUSE Tumbleweed, That usually happens several times a week. openSUSE currently (2024) supports installation via ISO and/or over a network from repositories for a wide range of hardware and virtualization platforms. This includes AArch64 (custom version for Raspberry Pi is available), Arm8 , POWER8 (ppc64le) , IBM zSystems (s390x) ,

3024-668: The same codebase as SLE 12 SP 2 and SLE SP 3 respectively. SLED 12's underlying base, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, was the first version of SLE to be offered on the Microsoft Store to be run on the Windows Subsystem for Linux . SLE skipped over versions 13 and 14, realigning the versions of openSUSE Leap and SLE at version 15. SLE 15 was released June 25, 2018 with the same codebase as openSUSE Leap 15.0. SLED 15 included major upgrades to GNOME 3.26, LibreOffice 6.0, GCC 7 and LTS kernel version 4.12. Version 15 also made

3087-446: The snapper tool to manage BtrFS snapshots. The most current service pack, SP 4, was released July 17, 2015. On October 28, 2014, SUSE (now an independent business unit) released SLED 12 built on openSUSE 13.1. SLED 12 introduced several new technological upgrades, including systemd , GNOME 3, GRUB 2, plymouth , and the in-house built wicked wireless network manager. SLED 12 also included further stability and integration with BtrFS. With

3150-467: The target project for all contributions to openSUSE's main code base. There is a constant flow of packages going into the Factory. There is no freeze; therefore, the Factory repository is not guaranteed to be fully stable and is not intended to be used by humans. The core system packages receive automated testing via openQA . When automated testing is completed and the repository is in a consistent state,

3213-574: The transition to GNOME 3, the GNOME Classic Shell, the vanilla GNOME Shell, and a SLE Classic Shell with a design that more closely mimics the slab layout were included. KDE, the default desktop environment in openSUSE, and support for 32-bit x86 processors were dropped from the enterprise distribution. SLE 12 Service Pack 1 was the first to be the basis for openSUSE's more conservative Leap series, with openSUSE Leap 42.1 sharing its codebase with SLE 12 SP 1. Leap 42.2 and 42.3 were built from

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3276-453: The ubiquitous Intel 64 (x86-64) , i586 , and i686 . Arm8 (including earlier Raspberry Pi models), i586 , and i686 are available in 32-bit version only. Specialized releases for use in containers and virtualized environments are available for onie , Microsoft Hyper-V , kvm , xen , Digital Ocean Cloud, Container Host with VMware , Vagrant , and VirtualBox . It can also be installed in conventional virtualization environments with

3339-539: The years, SUSE Linux has gone from a status of a distribution with restrictive, delayed publications (2 months of waiting for those who had not bought the box, without ISOs available, but installation available via FTP) and a closed development model to a free distribution model with immediate and free availability for all and transparent and open development. On 27 April 2011, Attachmate completed its acquisition of Novell. Attachmate split Novell into two autonomous business units, Novell and SUSE. Attachmate made no changes to

3402-523: Was changed completely: according to the Factory First policy all software packages had to be sent to Factory in the first place before they could be included in a distribution. Out of Factory a daily snapshot is taken and tested in openQA . A successful test is released as the next Tumbleweed snapshot. Unlike other rolling release distributions, Tumbleweed is a tested rolling release , which increases stability dramatically. Technically Tumbleweed

3465-431: Was first released on October 31, 2000 as a version for IBM S/390 mainframe machines. In December 2000, the first enterprise client ( Telia ) was made public. In April 2001, the first SLES for x86 was released. From a business perspective, SLES is not only a technical offering, but also has entangled a commercial offering (services and support). The initial business model was inspired by recurrent charges established in

3528-486: Was highly customized, and debuted the slab application menu on a one panel layout. SLED 10 was originally released June 17, 2006. The last service pack for SLED 10 was Service Pack 4, released April 15, 2011. SLED 11, based on openSUSE 11.1, was released March 24, 2009. It included an upgrade to GNOME and was the first release to ship KDE 4 , with version 4.1.3. Several improvements were made to improve Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange Server integration, and

3591-446: Was mainly developed in Europe. The first version appeared in early 1994, making SUSE one of the oldest existing commercial distributions. It is known for its YaST configuration tool. Since the acquisition by Novell in 2003 and with the advent of openSUSE, this has been reversed: starting with version 9.2, an unsupported one-DVD ISO image of SUSE Professional was made available for download. The FTP server continues to operate and has

3654-400: Was once integrated into YaST to change monitor settings, however, with openSUSE 11.3 SaX2 has been removed. The GTK user interface was removed starting with Leap 42.1, however, the ncurses and Qt interfaces remain. AutoYaST is part of YaST2 and is used for automatic installation. The configuration is stored in an XML file and the installation happens without user interaction. WebYaST is

3717-453: Was only freely possible to retrieve the source code of the next release 2 months after it was ready for purchase. SUSE Linux' strategy was to create a technically superior Linux distribution with a large number of employed engineers, that would make users willing to pay for their distribution in retail stores. SUSE Linux is of German origin, its name being an acronym of "Software und System-Entwicklung" (software and systems development), and it

3780-399: Was opened up to the community in 2005, which marked the creation of openSUSE. The focus of the developers is on creating a stable and user-friendly RPM -based operating system with a large target group for workstations and servers . Additionally, the project creates a variety of related tools, such as YaST , Open Build Service , openQA, Snapper, Portus, KIWI , and OSEM. In the past,

3843-552: Was released in July 2006, and is also supported by the major hardware vendors. Service pack 4 was released in April 2011. SLES 10 shared a common codebase with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 —Novell's desktop distribution for business use—and other SUSE Linux Enterprise products. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES 11) was released on March 24, 2009 and included Linux kernel 2.6.27, Oracle Cluster File System Release 2 , support for

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3906-487: Was released on October 18, 2017, and the final version was released on July 16, 2018. SLES 15 SP2, which updates the kernel, PostgreSQL, Samba, Salt and many other parts of the operating system, was released on July 21, 2020. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED), introduced as Novell Linux Desktop (NLD), targeted at the business market, it is developed from a common codebase with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and other SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) products. SLED includes

3969-425: Was under the ownership of several different parent companies. SUSE was owned by and conducted business as Novell from SLED's first release as Novell Linux Desktop in 2004 until 2011 when The Attachmate Group purchased Novell and created SUSE as an autonomous subsidiary. Micro Focus in turn purchased The Attachmate Group in 2014 and made SUSE an autonomous business unit, before selling it to EQT AB in 2019. EQT AB

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