OpenSUSE Tumbleweed: Difference between revisions

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About openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling distribution of openSUSE. It is kept up to date with the latest packages, while maintaining a degree of stability. Although not as unstable as the bleeding edge factory build (which usually includes the very latest and beta builds of packages), it is not considered as stable as the main openSUSE distribution. That being said, issues are usually fixed pretty quick due to the rolling nature of this release.

In 2019, we moved to openSUSE Tumbleweed. Due to the pace of change with internet security, a number of new features that we wanted on the server were not available in the normal openSUSE Leap releases without causing too much disruption to the normal release model. Some of the new features we want to take advantage of include:

TLS 1.3 support in Apache
openSSL 1.1.1 support, allowing TLS 1.3 support
Strongswan modern charon support, moving away from the old ipsec model of support

We will keep monitoring packages included with the next major openSUSE Leap release (expected to be openSUSE Leap 16) and will move back if all our requirements have been met in that release. However, for the foreseeable future, we will be using openSUSE Leap.

Known Issues

None at present

Information

openSUSE Tumbleweed is an open-source distribution and is free of charge. It was founded by Novell and is developed by the community and sponsored by SUSE, a subsidiary of EQT Partners, Sweden.

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 openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling distribution of openSUSE. It is kept up to date with the latest packages, while maintaining a degree of stability. Although not as unstable as the bleeding edge factory build (which usually includes the very latest and beta builds of packages), it is not considered as stable as the main openSUSE distribution. That being said, issues are usually fixed pretty quick due to the rolling nature of this release.
-<s>We have decided to use this build on the server, at least until the next openSUSE distribution release. We stopped using [[openSUSE Leap 42.1]] as we wanted to leverage the latest web and virtualization technologies which Leap fell just short of (namely http/2 and PHP 7 web technologies and IOMMU for virtualisation). Also, Leap is based on an older version of SUSE Linux Enterprise at the moment, which is mature, but not as up to date. So far we have had a few stability issues but these seem to be fixing themselves with the regular updates provided. When confident that a distribution contains the technologies we need, we will move back to a distribution release for ultimate stability.</s>We've moved back to [[openSUSE Leap 42.2]] regular release.
+In 2019, we moved to openSUSE Tumbleweed. Due to the pace of change with internet security, a number of new features that we wanted on the server were not available in the normal openSUSE Leap releases without causing too much disruption to the normal release model. Some of the new features we want to take advantage of include:
+* TLS 1.3 support in Apache
+* openSSL 1.1.1 support, allowing TLS 1.3 support
+* Strongswan modern charon support, moving away from the old ipsec model of support
+We will keep monitoring packages included with the next major openSUSE Leap release (expected to be openSUSE Leap 16) and will move back if all our requirements have been met in that release. However, for the foreseeable future, we will be using openSUSE Leap.
 == Known Issues ==
-* BIND DNS server is implemented as an old SysV service running under systemd. To enable it to boot on start-up (which is still hit and miss), you must use the SysV command <code>chkconfig named on</code>, for other commands such as start, stop and restart, you must use systemd commands <code>service named start/stop/restart</code>. ''Added 21st June 2016''
+* None at present
 == Information ==
-openSUSE Tumbleweed is an open-source distribution and is free of charge. It is developed by the community and sponsored by [https://www.novell.com/home/ Micro Focus (formally Novell)].
+openSUSE Tumbleweed is an open-source distribution and is free of charge. It was founded by [https://www.novell.com/home/ Novell] and is developed by the community and sponsored by SUSE, a subsidiary of EQT Partners, Sweden.
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