Opinions of openSUSE Leap
 

Hi all,

So openSUSE is moving to Leap, and with that comes some changes. The stable non-Tumbleweed distro will have a SLE base with a Tumbleweed desktop, and will be released roughly rough a year alongside SLE service packs, 32-bit support will be dropped, and for a .x release will be supported for 6 months after the next .x release, although the same SLE core will remain the same for three years. What are your opinions about this shift?

What is Leap?

What are your opinions about this?

I was thinking of trying out opensuse.

see the suse news
https://news.opensuse.org/
and wiki
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Leap

I don't quite get were you get this info from, do you have a link on that? As I read the announcements Leap will just be openSuse based on SLE (previous versions weren't based on SLE), not some stable/rolling mix. I might be wrong with that, so if youhave more infos please share.

I have always been a fan of Suse before Opensuse. I feel their distro's have been quite good.

Saying that however I am using Tumbleweed.

As in the base packages (I'm supposing the kernel, YaST, systemd, etc) are from SLED, while desktop packages (so we're not using KDE 4 in 2018) are derived from Tumbleweed. I believe 1500 packages are from SLE while the rest are from Leap out of 7000, according to some of the news openSUSE's given out.

My opinion? Personally furious about the lack of an official LiveCD and especially the loss of 32-bit support. Slightly annoyed by the overly vanilla feel its and Tubelweed's Plasma 5 implementations have. I somewhat think some of those changes will hurt the distro, however I'm keeping my mind open, in hopes that the Plasma 5 will mature when the distro's realignment is settled and that maybe there will be a CentOS-like 32-bit support project.

I'm looking more for other opinions and information rather than critique of my own hunches.

Interesting, and somewhat nice to see 32-bit dropped, IMO.

I thought KDE had a wide range of configuration options. Have those been removed like with Gnome? Or is it your assessment of most current and/or potential OpenSuse users that customising the default GUI is too difficult for them? It is a serious question, because KDE users rant and rave about KDE's customisation options. So I find your comments very interesting.

No, the kernel is not from SLE prdouct...

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Leap#Kernel_Version

I am really interested in that, can you please share a link to that information?

Member response
 

Hi,

Maybe this will help: openSUSE releases Leap Beta September 24th, 2015 by Douglas DeMaioPlus you can see the Roadmap for details.
Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!
:hattip:

Moderator response
 

Moved: This thread is more suitable in <SUSE / openSUSE> and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

I meant as in the Distro's KDE adaptations (such as the theme and other features added) seem to be slightly less. In terms of customizability, KDE 5 is probably about the same as KDE 4.

@ Ferrari - thanks for catching me on the kernel.

One thing I've noticed over time is that now, especially compared to six months ago, Tumbleweed is pretty stable for how close to the frontier it is. I'll probably use Leap on my only most critical production systems, although it seems like it will be extremely stable.

I'm still running both KDE4 & KDE5, and I'd say at the moment there's definitely less to customize with KDE5. Partially because so many features STILL haven't been implemented or have been implemented but don't work properly, but also just because it hasn't been out as long. With my KDE4 installs, I have something like 20 themes that are properly implemented and look good, with KDE5, I've struggled to find 5 that are properly implemented and aren't just cludged versions of KDE4 themes that will install but not work right.

Thanks, but I still can't see where people get the information from that about 7000 packages are from Tumbleweed, all it says is that the beta currently contains about 7000 packages.
The statements on the roadmap and the info on the Lifetime Wiki page linked in the roadmap seem to confirm that:
So, as I understand it, no rolling on top of a stable core, just regular releases with updates from time to time between the major releases.