The openSUSE Annual Survey and SLE* Plans

The openSUSE community has published results from the annual community survey.

This year’s results increased from last year’s results by more than 100 participants, with 1,320 respondents this time around. While participation increased, results indicated a larger amount of people located in Europe took the survey. Since other regions were less represented, people should be aware of this fact while reading the results.

Information was gathered about the project, its distributions, the demographics and how the community is contributing to the project. A number of questions in this year’s survey provided participants with a wider opportunity to express their opinions and satisfaction with the above topics. A document lists all the comments from the survey.

Moin,

In the last months many people have brought up the topic of "When will the next
SLE major version come out?". Today we would like to give you a first update on
the plans.

Since 2018, when SLE 15 was initially released a lot of things have changed,
including requirements from users and customers, technologies, the speed of new
versions of applications, languages and their libraries appearing.

Also the connection between Leap and SLE has changed.
And while some bits and pieces got better, we firmly believe we can do better.
SLE 15 is a great general purpose operating system, yet challenges with some
use cases, now places of deployment, and the type of enhancement requests show
that it's time for a successor.