
Hardening in the enterprise: SUSE releases Rancher 2.6.5 and NeuVector 5.0. SUSE releases Service Pack 4 for Linux Enterprise 15.
openSUSE Leap 15.4: The best desktop on the RPM side of the Linux world. Hints about SUSE's 'Adaptable Linux Platform' emerge. It could succeed splendidly, or it could doom one of the oldest Linux vendors around that was recently made independent. Additional packages or updates are stored in separate snapshots, meaning that if the system doesn't start up correctly, it will be self-healing: it will be able to automatically reboot into the last-known-good snapshot. A read-only root filesystem is much more robust against disk corruption in the event of a system crash or power outage.
The base ALP OS is very minimal – the unencrypted disk image is just over 300MB – and has an immutable, read-only root filesystem kept on Btrfs. ALP is similar enough that the company told us we could follow existing MicroOS tutorials such as this video on deploying the NGINX web server.
The current MicroOS can be configured as a desktop OS, which is an ideal way to explore it if you want to get a feel for the new design. At this stage, the new OS looks very much like MicroOS or SLE Micro, both of which were released some time ago.