14 DAY TRIAL // openSUSE Project, through Douglas DeMaio, proudly informs Softpedia via an email announcement about the general availability of a 64-bit Raspberry Pi 3 image of the openSUSE Leap 42.2 operating system.
The big news comes just one month after the release of a port of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system for Raspberry Pi single-board computers, but it looks like a 64-bit image of the Raspberry Pi 3 spin of OpenSuSE Leap 42.2 has been out on the streets for a couple weeks now.
"The ARM and AArch64 Images for openSUSE Leap 42.2 are not a once-only release," said Dirk Mueller, Senior Engineer OpenStack at SUSE. "They get continuously updated and include fixes as the Leap 42.2 port matures over time. These are the first usable images, and more variants with more fixes will come over time."
openSUSE Tumbleweed Raspberry Pi 3 images also available
For those not in the know, the rolling release of openSUSE Linux, Tumbleweed, is also available as Raspberry Pi images, supporting the built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies on the Raspberry Pi 3 SBC, but the recently introduced openSUSE Leap 42.2 port promises to give users more stability and reliability.
"Overall, the most exciting thing about having Leap on the Raspberry Pi 3 is that this is a fully working upstream-based image with full 64-bit support, which is something that even the Raspberry Pi Foundation doesn’t have," said Alexander Graf, Software Engineer at SUSE.
That being said, if you've wanted to use openSUSE Leap on your Raspberry Pi 3 single-board computer, now you can. Download the openSUSE Leap 42.2 Raspberry Pi 3 image right now from the official website and install it on your device(s) using the instructions provided there.