OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

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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.