It feels pretty good, as well as looks pretty good. YaST and the YaST installer have been basically in maintenance mode for a long time, without any active development for a number of years now, and it’s certainly time to move on.

Well, there’s already a discussion on the mailing lists, and while I can’t speak for the project, (nor am I an attorney, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night), the “Main” openSUSE Project logo is a registered trademark of SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, so it’s highly unlikely that it’s going to change.

Well, I can say, with all certainty, that while I appreciate the submissions, and the community making themselves heard, that isn’t the new Kalpa logo.

Nobody panic.

https://queer.party/@Lyude/111089178374415532

Correct, SUSE, the corporation is no longer providing a traditional linux distribution, after the SLE-15 EOL.

openSUSE, which is a community project, and not controlled by SUSE, is currently debating as to whether we have the contributors interested in doing so, and in sufficient numbers, to continue to provide a traditional point release distribution.

Tumbleweed (the rolling release) is not going anywhere. The community has not yet decided if the interest and manpower is there to use the ALP sources provided by SUSE to create A) A traditional linux distribution, akin to what Leap currently is, B) a “Slowroll” version of Tumbleweed, that has a slower release cycle, or C) Nothing at all, because there isn’t the community there to support the development of it.

SUSE != openSUSE

That is indeed the big question, if there’s nobody willing to put in the work, then there’s nothing to release.

Maintaining something like Leap, with the contributor base that has historically existed, isn’t sustainable, long term, especially when the upstream is going in a different direction.

Then yes, there are all kinds of things in the repositories that are going to annoy you.

What “wishy-washy” policy are you on about?

I certainly don’t care what distribution you use, but Tumbleweed, aside from the occasional glitch on single updates, is stable as hell, and has been for a long time. It’s hardly “bleeding edge” and on Par with Fedora, for instance, as far as stability is concerned. I’d say a bit more stable than the Arch derivatives, due to openQA.

Its not perfect by any means, but no distribution is.