7 things you should know about openSUSE Leap | Linux Today

7 things you should know about openSUSE Leap

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Swapnil Bhartiya
Nov 10, 2015

Swapnil Bhartiya was at SUSECon 2015 last week when SUSE announced Leap, and he talked to over half a dozen SUSE executives and openSUSE developers, including Richard Brown, the chairperson of the openSUSE board. The information he gathered from these interactions gave clear indications that Leap is now a great alternative to Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian for production servers. Here’s what you need to know.

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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