The openSUSE community offers the "first Linux hybrid distro," which combines source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) with community contributions in an effort to provide a balance between innovation and maturity. ClearOS, also known as the Next-Generation Small Business Server, is an IT solution for homes, small to medium-sized businesses, and distributed environments.
openSUSE Leap 42.1 (64-bit) INSTALL ONLY
The openSUSE community offers the "first Linux hybrid distro," which combines source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) with community contributions in an effort to provide a balance between innovation and maturity. The SLE contributions in Leap now share the same maintenance stream with the enterprise software. Leap sports the CUPS upgrade to v1.7, which shifts printing from PostScript-based to PDF-based job processing. Also on board are the Qemu 2.3.1 and VirtualBox 5.0.6 virtualization options, as well as the Docker 1.8.2 container tool. Btrfs is the default filesystem, with XFS available for performance, and the innovative Snapper tool offers convenient system snapshots for easy recovery.
ClearOS 7.2 (64-bit) INSTALL ONLY
ClearOS, also known as the Next-Generation
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OpenSUSE's hybrid Linux distribution combines source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) with community contributions. Parrot has a full development environment, with editors and IDEs pre-installed.
OpenSUSE is a community Linux system, sponsored by SUSE. Leap represents the current stable release and is touted as being "for beginners, experienced users, and ultra geeks alike."
OpenSUSE Leap is a community distribution that shares a common code base with SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) and coordinates with SLE releases (i.e., SLE is also in version 15).