OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 system release: supports KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS, Xfce 4.18 desktop environment

News on June 8th, the openSUSE project today released openSUSE Leap 15.5, which is the latest stable version of the openSUSE variant.

OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 is launched exactly one year after openSUSE Leap 15.4. It is built on the binary package of the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 operating system, equipped with the same Linux 5.14 kernel as Leap 15.4, but with the addition of drivers. to provide better hardware support.

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

Per NVMe-oF boot specification 1.0, openSUSE Leap 15.5 comes pre-installed with support for installing and booting distributions from NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) over TCP transport.

"This allows for flexible creation and orchestration of diskless clients in SAN environments using the latest NVMe-oF technology. This feature requires system UEFI BIOS support with the network and NVMe-oF targets configured. Firmware usage This information is used to boot the kernel. The operating system obtains the configuration information from the firmware and uses it to mount the root file system via NVMe-oF," the openSUSE project said.

In terms of software, 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 feature some of the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies, such as openSUSE Tumbleweed. It comes with dnf 4.10.0 package manager, systemd 249.10 init system, Mesa 22.3.5 graphics stack, as well as 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.

IT Home attaches openSUSE Leap 15.5 official website download (Click this link), which can be used as a live ISO image with pre-installed KDE Plasma, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments, as well as the Rescue version and Install the image offline.

Like previous releases, openSUSE Leap 15.5 supports 64-bit desktops, PowerPC (ppc64le) servers, UEFI ARM 64-bit (AArch64) desktops, laptops, SBCs and servers, and IBM System z and LinuxONE (s390x) servers. For users who want to virtualize openSUSE Leap, a virtual machine image can also be downloaded.

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

The above is the detailed content of OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 system release: supports KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS, Xfce 4.18 desktop environment. For more information, please follow other related articles on the PHP Chinese website!