OpenSUSE 13.1 available for Raspberry Pi

21/11/2013 - Category: Raspberry PI

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We have available a few days ago the latest version for *openSUSE 13.1*, both for desktop and *Raspberry Pi*. If you want to play around with this distro in your Raspi, let's see some features for you to have in mind...

Minimalist.
It is easier to resize because the root partition is the last one.
Compressed image is much smaller.
Reproducible image build, so easy to customize.
It is armv6 with floating point support, so could be faster.
Over 5200 successfully built packages from [openSUSE:Factory:ARM](http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv6hl/factory/repo/oss/). If you want to see package changes, here is a [log](http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv6hl/factory/repo/oss/ChangeLog).
so for example you can install a minimalistic graphical environment with **zypper install xauth twm xorg-x11-server xinit** and start it with **startx**

Download: [raspberrypi-opensuse-20131110x.img.xz (104 MB)](http://www.zq1.de/~bernhard/linux/opensuse/raspberrypi-opensuse-20131110x.img.xz)

HOWTO: [en.opensuse.org](https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi)

Link: [lizards.opensuse.org](http://lizards.opensuse.org/2013/09/07/new-raspberry-pi-image/)

Link: [openSUSE on RaspberryPi with ownCloud](https://dragotin.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/opensuse-on-raspberrypi-with-owncloud)