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Key Features

Simplify multimodal IT by bridging your traditional and software-defined infrastructures. The SUSE Linux Enterprise “common code base” platform helps break the silos of IT systems while bridging traditional and software-defined infrastructure. This enables easy migration of application workloads, improves systems management and eases adoption of containers.

Make traditional IT infrastructure more efficient with a Modular+ architecture that enables you to innovate and improve efficiency without disrupting the traditional IT infrastructure pillars—stability, security and proven standards.

The Modular+ architecture also helps you to easily deploy and transition business-critical workloads across on-premise and public cloud environments.

Accelerate the transition from developer setups to production deployments when you start with a free developer subscription or community Linux (openSUSE Leap) and easily move to fully supported enterprise Linux.

Achieve faster time to market by leveraging open source technology, methods, and existing knowledge.

Tech Specs

Minimum Linux server system requirements for installation

  • Local Installation: 512 MiB RAM, 512 MiB Swap recommended
  • 2 GiB available disk space (8.5 GiB for all patterns)
  • 16 GiB for snapshot/rollback of the OS

Recommendations for specific uses

  • 512 MiB to 4 GiB RAM, at least 256 MiB per CPU
  • 4 GiB hard-disk space, 16 GiB for snapshot/rollback of the OS
  • Network interface (Ethernet, wireless or modem)
  • For Xen virtual host server—at least 512 MiB RAM for each virtual host server
Kernel Limits

KVM Limits

Xen Limits

File Systems

Supported Java Versions

For full details on system and hardware specifications, please see release notes.

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openSUSE Leap

openSUSE, an open source community project sponsored by SUSE, creates distributions for those interested in community-supported Linux.

Leap is based on code contributions from SUSE and is designed to be as stable as enterprise Linux but offer the broad feature set of community Linux. It provides a strong start in production-grade Linux with an easy way to migrate to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE, an open source community project sponsored by SUSE, creates distributions for those interested in community-supported Linux.

Tumbleweed is a rolling-release Linux distribution from openSUSE. Ideal for developers and power users, it provides updates at the pace of contribution, using openQA to ensure stability. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 is the first enterprise Linux distribution to be based on the Tumbleweed project.

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