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openSUSE Leap 16.0 Enters RC Phase With New Installer, Xfce On Wayland Option


Working toward the stable openSUSE Leap 16.0 release in late 2025, the release candidate period has begun for this Linux distribution aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 sources.

Meanwhile SUSE/openSUSE developers continue working on transitioning both Tumbleweed and Leap 16.0 from the OBS SCM to Git for source control as one underlying change still going on. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 16.0 packages have seen a lot of work recently for those interested in running Xfce on Wayland albeit in an experimental state. OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 also presents its new "Agama" operating system installer, a lot of work around YaST components being replaced by Myrlyn, SELinux as the default rather than AppArmor, a new repository structure, and many other changes along with plenty of software package updates at large.

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