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If you intend to test for bugs or contribute patches, choose this version of openSUSE. A development stream of openSUSE is available for your review. This is an unsupported, open source only, preliminary edition of openSUSE that contains bleeding-edge packages and represents the latest development snapshot.

Warning

Don't use on production machines, and make sure to backup your data before installing on any machine.
If you want the latest stable release go to Released version.

Current version

This page lists the latest development release created from Factory development tree.

Version:

Factory

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You can help us make openSUSE better by installing and reporting any bugs you find.

For more information about openSUSE Factory, please visit

Please read the Most Annoying Bugs before you decide to download the latest development build and test it.

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You can use and install factory exactly like any other openSUSE distribution, even from a CD or from the Internet . You should be able to update to the current Factory distribution from any other openSUSE version.

Experimental images

Latest experimental image of openSUSE are available here :

Factory, Milestone or RC?

Factory is the day to day state of the work, changing each day.
Milestone indicates a development release, which is probably quite buggy.
RC (Release Candidate) indicates that few or no bugs remain, and if nothing is wrong, it will be renamed to GM (Gold Master) as a future final release.

Installation repositories

¹Sources for development releases are not distributed via mirrors to reduce the bandwidth and storage on these mirrors.
²The Non-Oss Add On Repository contains packages with closed source or not OSI-compliant license.