OpenSUSE Factory To Merge With Tumbleweed

sfcrazy writes Factory and Tumbleweed will merge to become a single release. The release will follow the development cycle of Factory but take the more appealing name, Tumbleweed. Commenting on the new development Greg Kroah-Hartman said, “The changes to the Factory release model have changed it from being an unstable development codebase into the type of rolling release I set out to create when starting openSUSE Tumbleweed. I’m very happy to see these two rolling releases coming together under the name Tumbleweed, and am looking forward to watching how it develops in the future.” Factory won't disappear; It will become a "development project" for creating the "user-ready" Tumbleweed."

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Re: Would it hurt the article author..

[Anonymous Coward]

Tumbleweed was openSUSEs original rolling release, started by GregKH, which added rolling package updates to the regular openSUSE versions.

Factory was originally openSUSEs unstable development branch (like Fedoras rawhide) but due to changes to our development process and heavy amounts of automated testing using openQA, Factory became a 'true' rolling release, with every package moving as fast as our contributors can move them, with QA preventing instability creeping in.

This merger takes Factory's process & technology and gives its Tumbleweeds name, hopefully bringing both userbases onto a single rolling release of openSUSE