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Leap Micro 6 Enters Alpha Stage (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 7 months ago by Archaeopteryx@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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The openSUSE project is excited to announce that Leap Micro 6 is in its alpha development stage.

Building on the solid foundation of its predecessors, Leap Micro 6 continues to provide a stable, secure and scalable platform for modern lightweight host operating systems that mirrors features and enhancements of SUSE’s commercial SL Micro release.

With the upcoming release of Leap Micro 6, users of Leap Micro 5.4 will need to plan their migration either to Leap Micro 5.5, directly to Leap Micro 6 or a commercial version, as version 5.4 will reach end-of-life upon the launch of Leap Micro 6. Those currently on Leap Micro 5.5 will have the option to upgrade to version 6 or remain on 5.5 until the subsequent release.

Users familiar with Leap Micro 5.5 will remember its standout features, such as enhanced SELinux capabilities, improved podman-docker and Hyper-V support for AArch64, which have significantly bolstered the security and versatility of the operating system.

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[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Replace "Leap Micro" with a random word and you sill don't know more.

So, what is Leap Micro?

[–] 56_@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

From the second link:

Leap Micro is an ultra-reliable, lightweight operating system built for containerized and virtualized workloads.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks.

[–] Reawake9179@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 7 months ago

It's essentially MicroOS, but built on Leap and not Tumbleweed, which is more bleeding-edge.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I wish them the best, but their model is not as good as Fedoras.

There is no

  • ~~rollback~~ reset
  • rebase
  • git-like transparency

And they compensate that by advising users to not install any RPMs which is pretty hillarious. I will do a longer writeup on that

[–] Jegahan@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly they do have rollback, at least in openSUSE Aeon (the immutable version based on Tumbleweed) . It just using btrfs snapshots

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

(Sorry corrected the comment)

Yes, they have rollbacks for one previous version.

But the whole point of rpm-ostree is that you can be bit-for-bit the same as the upstream OS. If you do rpm-ostree reset you will go back to the latest but untampered system of Fedora.

On OpenSUSE microOS (and the others, please invent a name), you either install and immediately snapshot the system. Then you can fall back to an untampered but very outdated system. Or you need to reinstall afaik, which makes it not better than traditional distros.