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CTOnews.com June 8, the openSUSE project today released openSUSE Leap 15.5, the latest stable version of the openSUSE variant.

Launched exactly a year after the release of openSUSE Leap 15.4, openSUSE Leap 15.5 is based on the binary package of the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 operating system, with the same Linux 5.14 kernel as Leap 15.4, but with added drivers to provide better hardware support.

OpenSUSE Project compared the Linux 5.14 kernel included in openSUSE Leap 15.5 with the upstream Linux 6.0kernel family, saying that the biggest change is in the GPU driver, which supports new graphics cards such as AMD Radeon RX 7600, AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT / XTX, Intel ARC A380, Intel Arc A750 and Intel Arc A770.

According to the NVMe-oF boot specification 1.0, OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 is pre-installed to support installation and boot distribution from NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) via TCP transport.

"this allows the flexibility to create and orchestrate diskless clients in a SAN environment using the latest NVMe-oF technology. This feature requires system UEFI BIOS support, where network and NVMe-oF targets are configured. The firmware uses this information to boot the kernel. The operating system gets configuration information from the firmware and uses it to mount the root file system through NVMe-oF," the openSUSE project said.

On the software side, openSUSE Leap 15.5 comes with the latest KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop environment series and the latest Xfce 4.18 desktop environment series. For GNOME desktop fans, this version still uses the GNOME 41 series from openSUSE Leap 15.4.

This version does not use some of the latest and best GNU / Linux technologies, such as openSUSE Tumbleweed. It comes with the dnf 4.10.0 package manager, systemd 249.10 initialization system, Mesa 22.3.5 graphics stack, and sudo 1.9.9, AppArmor 3.0.4, Perl 5.26.1, Python 3.6.15 (also supports Python 3.9,3.10 and 3.11), Ruby 2.5, Go 1.17, Podman 4.4.4, CRI-O 1.22.0 and containerd 1.6.19.

CTOnews.com is attached with the openSUSE Leap 15.5 official website download (click here), which can be used as a live ISO image of pre-installed KDE Plasma, GNOME, and Xfce desktop environments, as well as Rescue and offline installation images.

As with previous versions, openSUSE Leap 15.5 supports 64-bit desktops, PowerPC (ppc64le) servers, UEFI ARM 64-bit (AArch64) desktops, laptops, SBC and servers, as well as IBM System z and LinuxONE (s390x) servers. For users who want to virtualize the openSUSE Leap, you can also download virtual machine images.

OpenSUSE Project also announced plans this week to release another minor version of Leap 15, openSUSE Leap 15.6, which is expected to be available in early June 2024.

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