openSUSE sees 1600 new installations and 500.000 package installations per months, according to Alberto Planas, a member of the openSUSE development since 2012 and an employee of SUSE.
He mentioned the figures during a presentation at the annual openSUSE conference held in Nuremberg from 22 June to 26 June.
openSUSE has three streams of development: Tumbleweed is a rolling distribution that has all the latest stable versions of software.
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Alberto Planas giving his presentation at the openSUSE conference in Nuremberg.
And then there is Leap, which uses the source from the SUSE's enterprise distribution and is rock-solid as far as stability.
Some other interesting facts from Planas' presentation:
- The openSUSE team sees about 60.000 Tumbleweed users, half of which are frequently updating.
- Tumbleweed has doubled the number of installations during last year.
- Most openSUSE installations are done via DVD-Images.
- x86_64 is the CPU architecture of choice.
- The standard way to install openSUSE hence is: DVD on x86_64 and then upgrading to a recent system.
- The geographical distribution of openSUSE is unchanged: About one third of the users come from Germany (according to GeoIP), many others from the rest of Europe, followed by 12% out of the US, 5% from Russia and 3% from Brazil.