openSUSE

Last updated: 2024, Mon Jul 1st at 11:32 CDT

openSUSE is suitable for daily use as a desktop or server. Offering Leap releases, expect to upgrade to the latest minor release within 6 months of its availability, leading to a maintenance life cycle of 18 months. There is several versions of openSUSE: Leap the fixed stable LTS release, Slowroll is a newer release with a semi-rolling release, and Tumbleweed which is the rolling release.

General Information

• Zypper package manager
• YaST is is a Very powerful setup tool
• Tumbleweed and Slowroll are rolling releases
• RPM packages
• Copr and OBS a community-driven repository

Additional Setup - Add Repository #

I also recommend installing Packman repository, this adds extra programs and libraries that can be downloaded. To add the repo you can use Yast or the command line:

sudo zypper ar -cfp 90 'https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/' packman

To make changes take effect regardless if you used the command line or Yast, run:

sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper dup --from packman --allow-vendor-change