A stable and well-tested rolling release
Rollin' rollin' rollin'
We talked with Richard Brown at SUSECon about openSUSE Tumbleweed and the rolling release process.
There are two types of users: 1) Those who want a very stable, rock solid environment where they can run their applications without worrying about breaking things; and 2) Those who want the latest technologies to play with. openSUSE is now targeting both use cases with rock solid Leap and rolling release Tumbleweed. At SUSECon, I sat down with Richard Brown, who has played an instrumental role in openSUSE Tumbleweed. Brown chairs the openSUSE Board and recently joined SUSE (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Richard Brown at SUSECon.
The Brief History of Tumbleweed
The name Tumbleweed has been around for a very long time; kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman started the project back in 2010. Kroah-Hartman called it "a repo that is a rolling updated version of openSUSE, containing the latest 'stable' versions of packages for people to use." It wasn't a rolling release distribution in the true sense; in essence, it was actually rolling updates on top of the stable releases of openSUSE.
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