Well into the installation process, I suddenly received a warning message that the checksum of a specific file did not match up and constituted a big risk for the security and integrity of the system.
Instead, we get to see a detailed installation process showing how many GB of data are still to be written to disk. Unlike most other installers, openSUSE’s YaST2 installer does not display any fancy ad-like slides. The installer has the option to import user data from a previous installation – neat! After accepting that my password was too simple, the actual installation process got underway. We are then asked about the time zone before we can create our user. OpenSUSE Leap is quite unique in that it uses the advanced Btrfs file system. I took over the suggested partitioning scheme which was rather elaborate. I went with KDE Plasma, their flagship desktop and the one I used the last time I checked-out Leap 15.2. The openSUSE installer first prompts us to accept a license agreement and then configure the WiFi before choosing the desktop environment. I passed the ISO to a USB drive using Etcher and proceeded to install it onto my test Dell E7240 (8 GB Ram, 128 GB SSD, i5-4300, 1366 x 768). We could also opt for a minimal generic install or a server install. This is partly explained by the fact that openSUSE lets us choose between three different desktop versions: KDE Plasma, Gnome and XFCE. I downloaded openSUSE Leap 15.3 from the official site using the torrents option. Updating to version 15.3 is only recommended from the previous version 15.2. Most Linux desktop users won’t benefit directly from this move but as a result, Leap should offer a rock solid desktop experience. For more on that, check out their blog post entry. Not only does it share now the same source code with the latter but also uses the exact same binary packages. The aim of the developers was to get Leap as close as possible to SUSE Enterprise Linux.
Leap 15.3 is only a minor update over 15.2. Let’s see if the youngest Geeko, as their mascot is called, is up to snuff.
OpenSUSE’s latest Leap release 15.3 is now available. A fresh chameleon hatched a couple of days ago.
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