On 05/08/2021 07.04, Mathias Homann wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 5. August 2021, 02:33:36 CEST schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On 05/08/2021 01.51, cagsm wrote:
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 5:43 PM Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
what i didnt understand is why shipping a distro in 2021 would bring in software that has seen at least two releases beyond that from 2015 of the upstream vendor.
But you have to understand that Leap is defined that way. That's a key characteristic of Leap, like it or not.
so WHY is it "defined that way"? What is the benefit?
Go back in the mail lists for explanations at the time Leap was created (specially the Project mail list) :-) Also, read the explanations at the main opensuse web page. Leap is based in SLE, the commercial SUSE distribution, mostly for servers. SLE is how it is. They create a version, and over the years change the minimum, because that is what the enterprise customers want. STABILITY, NO BIG CHANGES. For several years, minimum 3, maybe up to 7. Leap is based in SLE, as I said, not in factory aka Tumbleweed. It takes the core packages from it. So, the characteristics of the core are the same as in SLE. Big advantage for openSUSE volunteers: much less work. However, SLE doesn't have KDE, for example. So, the community creates the KDE packages, not SUSE, and thus, they are recent packages. This happens to many others, as much as possible. SLE has Gnome, so Gnome doesn't have recent packages. But in some cases, volunteers create updated packages in extra repositories. Some cases can not be updated, because they need new libraries that can not be updated. If you want an openSUSE distribution with as recent packages as possible, then switch to Tumbleweed. Comment: there will be a Leap 15.4 for sure, and perhaps a 15.5. We don't decide, it is up to SUSE as they do SLES. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))