OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
This is the Linux distribution my server is based on. More information is available here. If you are looking to install openSUSE, there are more details in obtaining openSUSE Tumbleweed.
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.
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 virtualization). 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 provides. When confident that a distirubution contains the technologies we need, we will move back to a distribution release for ultimate stability.
Known Issues
- BIND DNS server is implmented as an old SysV service running under systemd. To enable it to boot on startup (which is still hit and miss), you must use the SysV command
chkconfig named on, for other commands such as start, stop and restart, you must use systemd commandsservice named start/stop/restart. Added 21st June 2016
Information
openSUSE Tumbleweed is an open-source distribution and is free of charge. It is developed by the community and sponsored by Micro Focus (formally Novell).
