openSUSE:Slowroll

What

Slowroll is a new experimental distribution from 2023 based on Tumbleweed, but rolling slower. With big updates every one or two months, and continous bug fixes and security fixes as they come in.

Use

For initial install, you can use the DVD iso from http://download.opensuse.org/slowroll/iso/ but leave online repositories disabled (so it does not pull in newer Tumbleweed packages from online repos). You can also switch directly from any actual Leap or Tumbleweed release to Slowroll by replacing the repositories.

After installation from DVD you need to replace Tumbleweed with Slowroll repositories. The same applies when switching from Leap or an older Tumbleweed snapshot to Slowroll.

   zypper in openSUSE-repos-Slowroll -openSUSE-repos-Tumbleweed

We do not recommend using development repos and packages on top, unless those are specifically compiled for Slowroll. Third party repositories which are not tested with Tumbleweed might break your installation.

Packman might work, but might also break occasionally. There is a special packman repository for Slowroll:

    zypper ar --refresh -p 70 http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Slowroll/Essentials/ packman

Like Tumbleweed, use zypper dup to upgrade.

Resources

Development

bmwiedemann did the design and scripting.

Development happens in https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Slowroll with the use of https://github.com/bmwiedemann/slowroll-tools

Untested packages go into https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Slowroll:Staging first and are tested by openQA (TBD)

Most updates should be submitted to Factory and will auto-migrate into Slowroll after acceptance. Be sure to mention relevant CVE-fixes and boo# references in .changes files to speed up migration. Direct submissions should only be needed for backports of urgent fixes that require updated core packages in Factory (which are too risky to update quickly)