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Portal:Factory

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Welcome to the Factory Portal edit

The next release will be openSUSE 11.4, to be released in March 2011.

The Factory distribution is the current state of the development for the next openSUSE release. The development releases of openSUSE (like Milestones or Release Candidates) are snapshots from this distribution.

This means the Factory distribution can be in any state, while the development releases do get some basic testing before the release. This is true between two distribution intervals (just after the release of the new distribution) as in the middle of a distribution test. The Factory distribution is always moving :-).

What is it good for?

The Factory distribution is mainly useful for developers and experienced testers. It is used as an always up-to-date development or testing platform. For the most part, it is also possible only to update a certain package, if you use the last development release to validate a bug fix. It always provides the latest source code within the src.rpm files.

A fixed and submitted package should be available one day later within the Factory distribution.

How often does it update?

Each of the trees (x86, x86_64, ppc) is only synced when it is in a consistent state (all builds completed) and that usually happens only once or twice a week.

All trees should be in sync, when a new development version of openSUSE is released. Have a look at the Roadmap for the next date.