I use openSUSE Leap for testing purposes. Before officially using any server in our office, we test it using the solution. My office usually uses production servers on the SUSE Linux enterprise version. Before that, I'll use those products in openSUSE Leap and get them tested.
openSUSE Leap
openSUSE | openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64) - v20250725Linux/Unix, Other 15.6 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Provides BTRFS file system, which allows you to take snapshots
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The solution's most valuable feature is the BTRFS file system, which allows you to take snapshots. If I want to do some patching activity where I need a restore point, I can use this feature as a restore point to roll back.
What needs improvement?
Both openSUSE Leap and the SUSE Enterprise version use the same kernel. Suppose I have a lower environment where I can run openSUSE to test all my products. It would be helpful if I could easily switch to SUSE Linux Enterprise for production. It would be helpful if we could easily switch from openSUSE Leap for testing to SUSE Linux Enterprise for production.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using openSUSE Leap for the last three years.
How are customer service and support?
We post our questions and doubts on the portal and receive help within a day or two.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Red Hat is costlier than openSUSE Leap.
How was the initial setup?
The solution’s initial setup is straightforward.
On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy, I rate the solution’s initial setup an eight out of ten.
What about the implementation team?
It took me almost 30 to 40 minutes to deploy the solution.
What was our ROI?
The solution has saved our organization time and cost.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
openSUSE Leap is an open-source solution that is free of cost.
What other advice do I have?
I only use the tool for testing purposes on my team, but multiple people use it. We don't make a team effort to install the solution. When it comes to maintenance, we ask our company to buy SUSE Linux Enterprise. My team consists of 13 people.
We are currently integrating the solution with Ansible to do some coding. Although not a full-fledged automation, we are integrating the solution with Ansible and executing a couple of playbooks connected to openSUSE Leap. I would recommend the solution to other users looking for an open-source solution.
Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Works flawlessly
My company has deployed a couple of production machines now using this AMI and everything works as expected, which for OpenSUSE means everything works with zero issues! Maybe we'll encounter one someday but for now it's an Admin's dream.
Easy to use and good documentation available
What is our primary use case?
I use it for DevOps. openSUSE Leap has helped me with using containers in Podman.
How has it helped my organization?
openSUSE Leap has helped with server security and server management.
What is most valuable?
openSUSE Leap is easy to use. It is not hard to use. It's actually quite easy. It's easier than Oracle, Linux, and other tools. And it's easy for managing servers.
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement in the console.
In additional features, I would like to see more automation and integration with popular community-developed applications.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using openSUSE Leap for three months. We currently use the latest version.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
openSUSE Leap is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability of openSUSE Leap an eight out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service and support team is excellent.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was easy. It only took a few minutes to set up. The documentation provided by openSUSE Leap is excellent.
What was our ROI?
It is a good investment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is excellent.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend using the solution.
Overall, I would rate the solution a ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Opensuse review
What do you like best about the product?
Its a high end tecnology. It is a versatile tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
It should offer more specifications.
Customization should be more.
Customization should be more.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its solving many of my business usecases
Open SUSE leap review
What do you like best about the product?
It is tested throughly which lead to better stability
What do you dislike about the product?
Open SUSE leapDon't have package manager.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's a good choice for a reliable Linux distro for desktop or server and deserves your serious consideration if you want to get into Linux or change distros for some reason
Free Enterprise grade Linux distribution
What do you like best about the product?
You can configure many parts of your system from one place and one tool YaST.
Becouse openSUSE Leap shares the source with Suse Enterprise Linux you get a stable system to work and game on
Becouse openSUSE Leap shares the source with Suse Enterprise Linux you get a stable system to work and game on
What do you dislike about the product?
Because openSUSE Leap is built to be as stable as possible Leap sometimes doesn't have the newest version of some programs available and can be a bit hard to install.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Leap to hobby develop games with the Unreal Engine 5.
For work, I use leap to configure networks and network devices.
By using Leap I get a stable system and if I need help there is a big community that happily will help me out.
For work, I use leap to configure networks and network devices.
By using Leap I get a stable system and if I need help there is a big community that happily will help me out.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're a user that wants a stable system go with Leap, but if you want the bleeding edge software try out openSUSE Tumbleweed
Good approximation to the SUSE version Enterprise with good performance
What do you like best about the product?
It is a distribution with good stability since it is based on the Linux Enterprise version that tries to offer a solution that allows the deployment of applications and servers. System maintenance and package upgrades are also made easier by using YAST.
What do you dislike about the product?
Using the distribution and configuring it requires more advanced technical skills than a normal user who wants to test the distribution, but doesn't know as much about the ecosystem of tools offered by SUSE, might have.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of the main features it offers developers is the use of container-based applications that have become an essential component of cloud computing. At this point, openSUSE Leap aims to be a competent solution in this area, where security updates, the presence of container platforms and orchestrators such as Docker Kubernetes stand out, as well as the possibility of being able to easily migrate a server, a virtual machine or a container.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
openSUSE Leap can be used as a staging environment to run workloads that can later be ported to SUSE Linux Enterprise Linux.
best business class Linux without the price tag.
What do you like best about the product?
Stable, all drivers always work. had it installed on more than 100 different systems, never had a problem.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing, there is literally nothing i don't like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Replacing windows with leap is straightforward and users that are not familure to linux pick it up right away.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Never worry if its the software or hardware problem.
If leap does not work, it is a hardware problem. Leap is super stable, with great support.
If leap does not work, it is a hardware problem. Leap is super stable, with great support.
OpenSUSE Leap
What do you like best about the product?
Easy maintenance with YaST. Very good stability.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes a bit more difficult cooperation with Nvidia cards during distro upgrades.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Great operating system even for notebooks.
full, professional and user friendly, easy to install and upgrade, full graphical system management.
What do you like best about the product?
Install system, Hardware support, and auto-recognition, The choice between many desktop environments, Stable, plenty of packages official or from the community but however stable, availability and easy install of non-free packages/codecs, yes, it's important for the user
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing, first days of the release 15.3 "closing the gap" had some update trouble, but it's been a great step, solved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
sorry to be obvious, speed, safe browsing, data consistency. Georeferencing system working fast with huge data.
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