OpenSUSE Leap 15 launched with Plasma desktop 5.12 LTS

On the 25th May 2018, SUSE Linux launched its Open Source Linux distro OpenSUSE Leap 15 to download. Its a new major milestone for the distribution which allows for easier migration to SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE)

Whats New in OpenSuse Leap 15

As per Distrowatch.com review “One of the key features which sets openSUSE apart from most other distributions is the use of Btrfs and file system snapshots. Each time we make a change to the operating system via the YaST collection of tools, the system takes a snapshot. We can then see snapshots of our file system in a YaST tool called Snapper. The Snapper tool shows a list of snapshots and tries to indicate which YaST tool triggered the snapshot’s creation. This means the snapshots are often listed with a comment like “yast users” or “yast software”. We can select a snapshot to see which files were changed between two snapshots. We can even see a line-by-line comparison of any two text files to find out how they were changed. We can then rollback changes, either for an entire snapshot or one specific file”.

OpenSuse 15 Latest Apps Version

Distro Name	OpenSUSE
Based On	RPM based
Distro Version	OpenSUSE 15
Desktop Environment	Default : Plasma 5.12 LTS GNOME 3.26.2
Website	https://www.opensuse.org
Download	For Leap : https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/leap For Tumbleweed : https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/tumbleweed
Karnel	4.4
Grub	2.02
Systemd	234
Samba	4.7.6
Shell	Bash 4.4
GCC	7
QT	5.9.4
Python	2.7.14
VIM	8.0
File Manager	Dolphin
Graphics	Gimp 2.8.22 Inkscape 0.92
Java	NA
Browser	Firefox 60
Email Client	Thunderbird 52.7
Video Player	VLC 3.0
Office	Libra Office 6.0.4.2