openSUSE
A community Linux distribution sponsored by SUSE.
openSUSE comes in two main flavours: Leap (point releases sharing a code base with SUSE Linux Enterprise) and Tumbleweed (a rolling release with continuously-updated packages). Both are backed by the Open Build Service, an unusually capable distribution-build infrastructure that anyone can use to build packages for openSUSE, RHEL, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and many other targets from a single source.
YaST, openSUSE's configuration tool, is a long-running effort to provide a unified, scriptable interface for system administration. It covers package management, service configuration, network setup, partitioning, firewall rules, and many other tasks. Whether you find this delightful or overwhelming is a matter of taste, but YaST is a defining characteristic of the distribution.
openSUSE is the default home distribution for the KDE Plasma team and a popular choice in European business environments. Tumbleweed, in particular, has a reputation as a well-tested rolling release — one of the best ways to get bleeding-edge packages without risking the kind of breakage that other rolling releases occasionally produce.
Install
Download an ISO from https://get.opensuse.org/
Authors
- openSUSE Project (community) and SUSE