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openSUSE Leap 16.0 Pre-Alpha Available, GA Next October

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While not expected to reach general availability (GA) state until October of 2025, available today in pre-alpha form is the openSUSE Leap 16.0 distribution.

openSUSE Leap 16.0 is officially in development and today there is public availability of the Leap 16.0 pre-Alpha. Leap 16.0 will be the successor to Leap 15.6 and general availability expected around October of next year.

With tradition, openSUSE Leap 16.0 will be derived from SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 binaries. Here's an early screenshot of openSUSE Leap 16.0 Pre-Alpha with GNOME although KDE Plasma and base spins are also available:

Being in pre-alpha form and one year out from release, there's still a lot to change with openSUSE Leap 16.0 / SLES 16 before the official release. openSUSE Leap 16.0 is expected to have the beta build out in May and the release candidate build in August. If all goes well Leap 16.0 stable will be out next October.

Details on Leap 16.0 development getting underway and the new public pre-alpha images can be found via [1]opensuse.org .



[1] https://news.opensuse.org/2024/10/07/leap-16-0-prealpha/


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There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the
warlord of Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: "Which is easier to design:
an accounting package or an operating system?"
"An operating system," replied the programmer.
The warlord uttered an exclamation of disbelief. "Surely an
accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of an operating
system," he said.
"Not so," said the programmer, "when designing an accounting package,
the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas:
how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to
the tax laws. By contrast, an operating system is not limited my outside
appearances. When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the
simplest harmony between machine and ideas. This is why an operating system
is easier to design."
The warlord of Wu nodded and smiled. "That is all good and well, but
which is easier to debug?"
The programmer made no reply.
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"