openSUSE Leap 15.5: A hybrid distribution based on enterprise Linux

The openSUSE project today announced the release of openSUSE Leap 15.5, the latest stable version of this openSUSE variant. It is built on SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 for users who want a well-tested operating system on their personal computers.

openSUSE Leap 15.5 arrives a year after openSUSE Leap 15.4 and is built on binary packages for the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 operating system. It uses the same Linux 5.14 kernel as Leap 15.4, but adds more drivers for better hardware support.

openSUSE Leap 15.4 upgrade to openSUSE Leap 15.5

The openSUSE project compared the Linux 5.14 kernel included in openSUSE Leap 15.5 with the upstream Linux 6.0 kernel series and said the most significant changes were in the area of ​​GPU drivers, supporting AMD Radeon RX 7600, AMD Radeon RX New graphics cards such as 7900 XT/XTX, Intel ARC A380, Intel Arc A750 and Intel Arc A770.

openSUSE Leap 15.5 screenshots

An interesting feature in openSUSE Leap 15.5 is out-of-the-box support for NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) installation and boot over TCP transport, compliant with NVMe-oF boot specification 1.0.

"This enables the flexibility to create and orchestrate diskless clients in SAN environments using the latest NVMe-oF technology. This feature requires support from the system's UEFI BIOS and configuration of the network and NVMe- oF target. The firmware uses this information to boot the kernel. The operating system obtains the configuration information from the firmware and uses it to mount the root file system via NVMe-oF," the openSUSE project stated.

On the software side, openSUSE Leap 15.5 uses the latest KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop environment series, which will be supported for several years, as well as the latest Xfce 4.18 desktop environment series. Unfortunately for fans of the GNOME desktop, this version still uses the GNOME 41 series from openSUSE Leap 15.4.

Under the hood, this version doesn't include the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies like openSUSE Tumbleweed. Therefore, it uses dnf 4.10.0 package manager, systemd 249.10 init system, Mesa 22.3.5 graphics stack, as well as sudo 1.9.9, AppArmor 3.0.4, Perl 5.26.1, Python 3.6.15 (Python 3.9 is also supported , 3.10 and 3.11), Ruby 2.5, Go 1.17, Podman 4.4.4, CRI-O 1.22.0 and containerd 1.6.19.

For more details, you can view the full list of features. In the meantime, you can download openSUSE Leap 15.5 from the official website, which offers live ISO images with KDE Plasma, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments pre-installed, as well as rescue builds and offline installation images.

Like previous releases, openSUSE Leap 15.5 supports 64-bit desktops, PowerPC (ppc64le) servers, UEFI ARM 64-bit (AArch64) desktops, laptops, SBCs and servers, as well as IBM System z and LinuxONE (s390x) servers. Virtual machine images are also provided for download by those who want to virtualize openSUSE Leap.

The openSUSE project also announced plans to release another minor version, openSUSE Leap 15.6, in early June 2024.

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