Security

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Features

openSUSE's Security Features help to prevent bugs from beeing exploitable.

Updates

Security updates for openSUSE are provides for two years starting from the release date. See SUSE Linux Lifetime for details.

Security announcements are sent to the opensuse-security-announce mailinglist. An archive is also available.

Updates are freely available on our Update Mirrors. A helper program of YaST Online Update automatically notifies the user about new updates and allows to install then with a few mouse clicks.

Team

Security of the openSUSE distributions is being worked on by the Security Team within SUSE.

Links

openSUSE security related links on the Novell website: