When I wrote the original version of this text in Brazilian Portuguese, a few months ago, openSUSE Tumbleweed did a little better than openSUSE Leap on the Raspberry Pi 4, but today both perform the same. But today I want to talk about Tumbleweed. Usually I write about openSUSE Leap here.
Later, the openSUSE Project started to offer two Linux distros: openSUSE Leap and openSUSE Tumbleweed. Until 2014, there was only one Linux distro called openSUSE, which was then at version 13.2. openSUSE Leap vs openSUSE Tumbleweedĭid you know that there are two openSUSE distros? The downside of this approach is that, while open-source modules are not developed, it’s not possible to use some of the Raspberry Pi 4 features. It is a longer and more time-consuming path, but at least in theory it should deliver better results in the long run, which also may benefit other Linux distros. This path is shorter, provides a system that just works as soon as possible, and there is nothing wrong with that.īut openSUSE chose to take a different approach, trying to add Raspberry Pi 4 support to the mainline Linux kernel, which is used by the distro.
SUSE LEAP DOWNLOAD FULL
Manjaro has followed the same path and, therefore, also offers full Raspberry Pi 4 support right now. Raspbian offers full Raspberry Pi 4 support because it uses the Linux kernel and pre-compiled binaries from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi Foundation makes available on GitHub the source code of their own fork of the Linux kernel and the pre-compiled binaries of the closed-source Broadcom software. But that could be an issue for open-source purists. That was understandably a trade-off that the board’s creators had to make to offer it at an affordable price. This may not be an issue for most Raspberry Pi users.
SUSE LEAP DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE
Pieces of the software specific to the Raspberry Pi - firmware, bootloader and Linux kernel modules - are released closed source by its processor manufacturer, Broadcom, which has been unwilling to make them open source. Getting started on Raspberry Pi with NOOBS and RaspbianĮven nowadays, openSUSE support for the Raspberry Pi 4 is not yet complete.If you want to know more about the Raspberry Pi 4 and its tech specs, please read: At that time, anyone wishing to use a Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop would have to resort to another Linux distro, such as Raspbian or Manjaro. Did you know that it’s already possible to run openSUSE on a Raspberry Pi 4? The first time I wrote about this credit-card sized computer, a year ago, its fourth generation was not yet supported by the openSUSE Project.
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