I am curious about the new ‘hybrid’ release system.
My understanding is the CR (Community Release) version has updates provided by the community that are deemed beneficial.
What is in the regular ‘Build’ release? What is is based on?
It seems rather problematic to release and maintain two builds.
Why the split? Clearly one is updated more frequently than the other, is this an effort to provide a pseudo LTS version?
The question is not clear.
Are you asking about the comparison of SLE (SUSE Enterprise Linux) with openSUSE? These are the openSUSE forums, where most people are not using SLE so cannot compare.
No. In the downloads section of OpenSUSE there are two LEAP ISO’s for download.
One is:
openSUSE-Leap-15.4-CR-DVD-x86_64-Build31.95-Media
The Other is:
openSUSE-Leap-15.4-DVD-x86_64-Build243.2-Media
A little digging I came up with CR including community content.
There are differences in the ISO’s. One is 1GB larger and I have an install
error with the second one that I did not see with the newer ‘CR’ release.
No “community content” contained at all. By using the official download side you will see what the difference is as it is clearly described:
Updated Offline Image: openSUSE-Leap-15.4-CR-DVD-x86_64-Build31.95-Media
Offline Image: openSUSE-Leap-15.4-DVD-x86_64-Build243.2-Media
And the difference in size is only 100Mb: 3,8Gb vs 3,9 GB
My question still stands. What is the difference between these ISO’s and why the dramatic name differences if one is just a newer build? Why are two distinct builds even being offered? It seems like if you are going to publish an updated build you would simply push the newer build.
It’s not that hard to understand. If you press the small little triangle next to the download…and press “Pick mirror” you will find some additional dates:
openSUSE-Leap-15.4-DVD is the initial release media dated back to May 2022.
openSUSE-Leap-15.4-CR-DVD containes all updated packages since release and is dated jan 2023.
That’s all I was asking.
@GofBorg It’s just the Quarterly re-spin DVD with all the latest updates, see openSUSE:Roadmap - openSUSE Wiki