OpenSUSE Linux Has ANOTHER Distro Stream!

OpenSUSE has yet another distro stream in the pipeline and I absolutely adore the dumb name, OpenSUSE Slowroll, it's slower than Tumbleweed but quicker than Leap

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[brunothedev]

cant wait for OpenSuse slower-than-rolling-slowly-faster-than-leaping, this will be the best distro ever

[FengLengshun]

No one made openSUSE-based distro... so they decided to do it themselves. And yeah "Manjaro but competent, " was my first thought as well. I might try it one of these days, openSUSE seems pretty good and this middle-ground would be fine to me.

[knghtbrd]

Slowroll sounds like the kind of thing a lot of people want for a "stable" desktop. Not like a rolling release with the bugs that come from that, but as things are verified to be reliable/working.

[tireseas]

So basically it's OpenSUSE's CentOS Stream type concept? I can definitely see an audience for it.

[Bunstonious]

I always have been, and always will be, a rolling release fan. Currently I use tumbleweed and if I had to use it for work, I'd consider slowroll, but I still love tumbleweed.

[Sirotaca]

Sounds great to me, honestly. I'm using Arch currently, but would gladly sacrifice a bit of update speed for a more stable, but still rolling, system. Like you said, it sounds like Manjaro, but hopefully a bit less... Manjaro. I might give it a whirl once the dust settles a bit.

[SliceJosiah]

I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and I can confirm that I get sick of having 170 updates every week.

[obake]

20 seconds in and I gotta chime in already - Leap isn't the poster child of opensuse, that's Tumbleweed. Matter of fact Leap is on it's deathbed because nobody wants to work on it. Slowroll is a potential replacement for Leap.

Now I will actually watch the video and see if you say all that and I'm just being an idiot jumping to conclusions.

Edit: Okay, having watched the video you did go over it. You are correct that nothing is confirmed as of this stage. But after reading this along with some other posts from mailing lists and reddit, I think the writing is on the wall.

[BannedEvECharacter]

I have a partition with Leap installed, its the thing I default to when I screw up the other distros I hop around to. That being said, why not just have a slider or an option during install that lets you choose between update frequency? Fast (tumbleweed), not fast, but not slow (slowroll and also the default choice) and finally stable or slow (leap). I'm sure it could be done by using different repository sets and kernels, by people that are much smarter than I can ever dream of being.

[act..]

I love me some Tumbleweed. I find it to be much more solid that Arch and I ran Arch for years. I have not tried Slowroll, but it looks like something that a lot of users would be very happy with. Imagine what Debian could do with a distro like this.

[xcz]

I think this idea is brilliant. A bit of testing a bug fixing on updates would be excellent. I'm downloading Slowroll and trying it out.

[act..]

I have now been testing SlowRoll for about a month and I am very impressed. I may end up switching this Tumbleweed gaming PC with nVidia over to SlowRoll as well. I will most likely wait till my SlowRoll PC gets Plasma 6.0 before the switch.

[MegaManNeo]

I can not recall anything on Tumbleweed ever breaking for me and I use it quite a few years now.
At the same time, I'd be happy to see a replacement for Leap (which I use on my work ThinkPad) that actually sees better support in the OBS.

[themroc]

Thumbleweed has always been excellent on my laptop, very polished, very stable, with good software availability and useful custom tools. And I think this is a great idea: I just use Tumbleweed because I don't want to have to do a big upgrade every so often, and I also don't need my software to be super up-to-date constantly. And if this means it is going to be more stable, this would be my new choice for my home computer (currently Debian). All I need for that computer is a system that allows me to travel for 3/4 months, come back home, launch an update and start doing some work right there and then without it self-destroying in the process.

[nothingtoseeherelolkek]

I’m in multiple years never had problems with tumbleweed. It’s stable af.

[johnrieley]

Using TW for some months, and only glitch is sometimes conflict in versions from different repos solved through manual zypper ops. So far, so good. Thanks for the news.

[TechJoltd]

I use tumbleweed and update whenever I feel like it (usually 2 weeks or smthing). I still wouldn't use slowroll since I basically do what it would do but I have the benefit of updating sooner if I want. I've literally never had this distro be unstable on me its insane.

[wantgoodvibes]

Thanks for the video Brodie. I very much like Tumbleweed and how stable it is for being a rolling release type distro, especially so when it's a server type system only and doesn't require a desktop environment and need to deal with Nvidia shenanigans . That said, Slowroll sounds excedingly better for some use cases, both servers and desktops where imutable options aren't needed or wanted. I'm also looking forward to seeing how their RedHat fork/clone/version shakes out when they get it up and running. That could possibly be another great system as a solid alternative for Leap, :) Just my opinion.

[Norbert]

Being built with SLE code, Leap is kind of openSUSE's equivalent of CentOS classic so I don't see a reason for it to be discontinued. Maybe if at some point in the future SUSE decides to make SLE atomic-only, then Leap could also be replaced with MicroOS Leap.

[rafaelgil]

I think this is a great idea. I was using MicroOS (tumbleweed based) on my home server and everything was good until an ncurses update broke the clipboard functionality from tmux and I was unable to work properly (I filled a bug in the tmux project and they confirmed the problem with ncurses update). Luckily I went on vacation in only a couple of days and when I came back, all was good again. That probably wouldn’t have happened in a “slowroll”.
I believe we are at a time of transition for distros and a lot of options are being tested. Should we use a “stable” (EL, Debian, etc) system with flatpaks everywhere? Immutable point release? Immutable rolling (with easy rollbacks)? Slow roll? Time will tell which of these options will “prevail”