This week in Linux, OpenSUSE has been pretty busy. This year’s OpenSUSE conference just started and we also got a brand new version of OpenSUSE’s Leap Micro with Leap Micro 6.0 being released. Now, there is a lot of great content from the conference and if you didn’t get a chance to watch it, you’ll find links to all the talks that they had in the show notes. Now, let’s talk about Leap Micro. So, what is Leap Micro? Well, Leap Micro 6.0 is a rebranded version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.0.
What does that mean? Well, Leap Micro or the SLE Micro is intended to be an ultra reliable container and machine host that is a cloud native oriented system. There are two primary variants for Leap Micro. Both of them contain a container stack, but the default offers a virtual machine stack as well, whereas the base is a lighter on space requirement system, so it caters to users who do not need virtual machines.
So what’s new with 6.0? Well, image-based deployment is here. Self-install images that simplify the device setup. Also, reported install from start to finish is in under two minutes, which is pretty fast for a distro installation. Also has real-time kernel option being added, only for container use, but still that is awesome to see. Also, they’ve added full disk encryption, and also it fully supports SELinux out of the box. Podmin has been updated to the latest version, Cockpit has been added for web-based system management, and many many more things. They’re also going to be phasing out a few things like the legacy BIOS support is being phased out so future releases will use UEFI fully. The LTTNG tool is being phased out as well. Leap Micro will fill the functionality but use a newer technology instead.
What do you think of the latest Leap Micro? What are your thoughts on OpenSUSE in general. Did you get to attend OpenSUSE conference? If you did, let me know what you think about it?
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