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September 15, 2024 - Q. Why is the Slowroll Build 19.13 ISO just a Tumbleweed Install? ... The DVD should work fine. The NET isos are still WIP and will install an old Tumbleweed snapshot (if you keep online repos off) so you need to do 'zypper in openSUSE-repos-Slowroll' before installing anything.
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r/openSUSE on Reddit: I don't really understand the point of Slowroll at all.
December 23, 2023 -
Slowroll as a replacement for Leap doesn't make any sense to me. Leap is a fixed release distro and Slowroll is just a slower Tumbleweed. I've never understood the point of a delayed rolling release because you aren't getting the latest versions of software as they come out but you also aren't getting a stable system. It has the drawbacks of both Tumbleweed and Leap with (seemingly) none of the advantages of either. I know with the announcement of the ALP Leap is kind of dead, but I don't think Slowroll is an idea that even makes any logical sense.
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I always thought Leap releases were badly paced with too much time between them. With newer hardware Leap is also hard to propose to potential users looking for compatibility and some stability. Tumbleweed is not for everyone, so I find the idea of Slowroll perfect, all the latest bells and whistles without the long wait for a new annual release like many other distros.
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While I too doubt the benefits of Slowroll over Tumbleweed, if I compare it to Leap as you have I come to a very different conclusion Slowroll makes just as much point, if not more so, than Leap You don’t get a “stable” (for any definition of the word) system out of regular releases. They still have updates and complex backports often introduce complex problems. Everyone loves the story of regular releases but the realities remain problematic - this is known and implicitly accepted by many sysadmins; why else do people very rarely automate patching Leap? Slowroll will break less often and be fixed faster than Leap - the biggest problem I foresee though is that Slowroll will break as often as TW and be fixed slower than TW
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news.opensuse.org › 2024 › 01 › 19 › clarifying-misunderstandings-of-slowroll
Clarifying Misunderstandings of Slowroll - openSUSE News
January 19, 2024 - Regarding Slowrolls relationship with openSUSE Leap, it’s important to note that Slowroll is not a replacement for Leap. Rather, it provides an alternative for users seeking more up-to-date software at a slower pace than Tumbleweed, but much faster than Leap.
openSUSE Forums
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How to migrate from Tumbleweed to Slowroll? - Install/Boot/Login - openSUSE Forums
February 28, 2024 - Is it possible to perform a migration from Tumbleweed to Slowroll, or does it require re-installing? I have a few more questions that I seek clarification on: From the Slowroll wiki: We do not recommend using devel on top, unless those are specifically compiled for Slowroll.
openSUSE Forums
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SlowRoll and Tumbleweed in 2025 - Open Chat - openSUSE Forums
April 19, 2025 - I have been away for a while, and I want to return. I see that SlowRoll is still labeled ‘experimental’. Is that because OpenSuse has not decided to commit to it or because it is not yet reliable? I am interested in Slow…
Reddit
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January 24, 2024 - You can find what is new in https://news.opensuse.org/2026/05/04/tw-monthly-update-april/ or ... I started the process to replace our Slowroll base snapshot with Tumbleweed's 20260504 version.
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download.opensuse.org › slowroll › iso
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Is slowroll to be recommended these days? - Applications - openSUSE Forums
February 21, 2026 - See, i like rolling release patterns for being up to date, but at the same time i like stable patterns for reliability (but that depends on QA). So slowroll seems like a good inbetween, however does slowroll have good QA…
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ENG | Moving from Fedora 44 to openSUSE Slowroll | Pavel's devlog
May 7, 2026 - Three years ago, openSUSE used apparmor and some weird network configuration, zypper used to be slow (different compression, no parallel downloads, slow mirrors, btrfs snapshots - likely combination of more factors). Now it uses SELinux and zypper feels about as fast as dnf with exception of initial refresh. Moreover, Tumbleweed Slowroll was introduced which solves my previous issue - Leap was quite outdated for software development, whereas Tumbleweed was torrent of updates.
Vivaldi
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openSUSE introduces openSUSE Slowroll | Vivaldi Forum
December 23, 2024 - openSUSE has introduced a new distro called Slowroll, based on Tumbleweed. The intent is to have updates every one or two months with bug fixes, but it will ...
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en.opensuse.org › Portal:Slowroll › Intro
Portal:Slowroll/Intro - openSUSE Wiki
December 25, 2025 - openSUSE Slowroll uses a modified version of openSUSE Tumbleweed to give a little more stability to users who don‘t want the bleeding edge but also don’t want to wait 12 months for a minor release or 3 to 4 years for a major release like openSUSE Leap.
Linux Adictos
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Slowroll, the new openSUSE distro based on Tumbleweed
September 12, 2023 - A new distribution called "openSUSE Slowroll" has been presented, which is positioned as an intermediate distro between...
openSUSE Forums
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Slowroll became Tumbleweed after update and reboot - Install/Boot/Login - openSUSE Forums
October 9, 2025 - The repositories are Slowroll. distribution-logos-openSUSE-Slowroll is installed. distribution-logos-openSUSE-Tumbleweed is not. cat /etc/os-release now shows Tumbleweed with a 2 October date. The only place where I see any reference to Slowroll, aside from the repositories, is the Plymouth ...
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Index of /pub/linux/suse/opensuse/slowroll/
Index of /pub/linux/suse/opensuse/slowroll/ · / images/ 09-Feb-2026 11:59 - iso/ 08-Jun-2026 11:27 - next/ 02-Jun-2026 19:56 - next-full/ 02-Jun-2026 19:56 - repo/ 02-Jun-2026 19:56 -
openSUSE Forums
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Expectations of SlowRoll Users: Diverging from the Tumbleweed Experience - Open Chat - openSUSE Forums
January 12, 2024 - As an early adopter of OpenSUSE SlowRoll, I wanted to share some insights from an end-user perspective. My goal is to make SlowRoll as adoption-friendly as possible, before it reaches a broader audience. Here are a few points I believe are worth discussing: Package Management with Zypper: I’ve noticed that using zypper dup installs a range of additional software by default, which could be perceived as bloatware.
openSUSE
en.opensuse.org › Archive:Old_Slowroll_Page
Archive:Old Slowroll Page - openSUSE Wiki
January 2, 2025 - Slowroll is a new experimental distribution from 2023 based on Tumbleweed, but rolling slower. With big updates once per month, and continous bug fixes and security fixes as they come in. For initial install, you can use the DVD iso from https://download.opensuse.org/slowroll/iso/?P=*DVD*.iso ...
openSUSE Forums
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Any Updates on the Full Release of openSUSE Slowroll? - Open Chat - openSUSE Forums
February 27, 2025 - Hi everyone, I’ve been using openSUSE Slowroll as my daily driver for months now, installed in dual boot with Windows 10 (though I’ve used Slowroll so much that I even forgot my Windows password 😅). I really like the balance it offers between Tumbleweed and Leap, but I noticed it’s ...
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Show openSUSE:Slowroll - openSUSE Build Service
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Slowroll = a derivative codestream of openSUSE:Factory that uses automated rules to limit the rate of change to the codebase · Release manager: bmwiedemann · https://www.zq1.de/~bernhard/linux/opensuse/slo...
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Slowroll October Update - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists
Dear Fellow Geekos, The October update was a bit more tricky than usual because of the Gnome-49 issue with old nsswitch.conf entries. As discussed in https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE_Slowroll/comments/1o1u60g/october_version_... I adopted this patch https://build.opensuse.org/projects/openSUSE:Slowroll:Build:2/packages/gdm/f...