openSUSE Leap Reviews & Insights

Score10 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for openSUSE Leap are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Stability and reliability: OpenSUSE has received high praise from users for its exceptional stability and reliability. Multiple reviewers have reported that the operating system works flawlessly on various systems, providing a consistently reliable experience.

Ease of maintenance with YaST: The YaST tool is frequently mentioned as a standout feature by users. It simplifies system maintenance and management tasks, making it easy for users to keep their OpenSUSE systems running smoothly without any hassle.

Suitable for non-IT professionals: Many users appreciate the manageability of OpenSUSE, particularly among non-IT professionals. They highlight that the operating system is suitable for individuals who don't possess extensive sysadmin skills but still want a solid and dependable system. This user-friendly aspect makes OpenSUSE accessible to a wide range of users with diverse backgrounds.

openSUSE Leap Reviews

3 Reviews

openSUSE Leap is an enterprise grade stability for community

Rating: 10 out of 10

August 16, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use openSUSE Leap to run virtual web, proxy, database etc. servers and also we use it as Docker container base image for most containers we run in Kubernetes clusters. It covers our needs in both cases – servers and containers run stable and have a wide range of software packages already precompiled and available in default repositories.

Pros

Small footprint.
Software packages are well maintained.
Wide range of software packages available in default repositories.
Predictable release cycle.

Cons

Software packages are not always the latest version.

Likelihood to Recommend

OpenSUSE Leap is well suited for just about any Linux task. Especially I like to use it as Docker base image for my software deployments, because it has a wide variety of software packages available already precompiled and packages are well maintained - vulnerable software versions are patched in reasonable time. OpenSUSE Leap is rpm based system, and it wouldn't install Debian or other systems packages. If your software is not an rpm package then OpenSUSE Leap would not be suitable for your system.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

openSUSE Leap for development and production

Rating: 10 out of 10

March 16, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use openSUSE Leap as the operating system for both the development of new applications and for production servers. It is very stable and requires much less time to maintain compared to Windows operating systems. Using YaST it is very easy to install additional open-source packages including development environments. The online update mechanism allows the system to be kept up to date with all the patches etc. The stability is great, and it is also easy to perform distro upgrades to the new versions of openSUSE Leap. The system works on laptops as well, so the usage of new packages in the production environment can be easily tested in the development environment.

Pros

Maintenance of software packages using YAST
Availability of patches when a vulnerability is discovered
Distribution upgrades

Cons

Faster adoption of latest versions of packages

Likelihood to Recommend

It is a great system for running applications that are not "Windows only". It works very well with application servers like Tomcat or Glassfish. In the development environment, it can run many IDEs like Netbeans for Java or VS Code for Python. It is a great platform for running Docker or Kubernetes. It supports also full virtualization so Windows can be running inside a virtual environment to share the hardware cost.

Verified User

Employee (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

openSUSE Leap - rock-stable and feature-full

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 14, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

openSUSE Leap forms the basis of the infrastructure at our organisation. We have a mix of virtualised and containerised workloads that run on top of openSUSE Leap, both internal and customer-facing.

Pros

Low maintenance security updates
Stability
Variety of packages available out of the box
Easily extensible by using the Open Build Service

Cons

Commercial packages not always available
Stable packages sometimes lag behind the latest releases

Likelihood to Recommend

I would always use openSUSE Leap in scenarios where stability and security is needed. Sharing binary packages with SLE (as of 15.3) is an additional arguments for stability and offers a migration path for scenarios where more support is needed.

I would look for solutions like openSUSE Kubic or MicroOS for hosting container workloads due to the additional management tools they bring.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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