[ANNOUNCE] SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 Public Beta (Beta 2) is out!

[SUSE Beta Program]

We are thrilled to announce the Public Beta (Beta 2) of SUSE Linux
Enterprise Micro 5.1!
SLE Micro is an ultra-reliable, lightweight operating system
purpose built for edge computing. Please check out our Product
page[1] to learn more, but for the beta program, please refer to our
dedicated beta page[2].

Download[3]

Major Theme for SLE Micro 5.1

- Web based System Management with Cockpit
As an immutable operating system designed for Edge use cases, SLE
Micro does not support YaST for local system administration. We
provide basic administration tools via the included web-based
system management based on the Cockpit project.
- New deliverable: Real-Time
Real-Time – On Intel and AMD64 SLE Micro provides a real-time kernel as
an option.
- Security Framework
SLE Micro standardises on SELinux as the security and confinement
framework and extents it with a fully supported SELinux policy.

Notable Changes since SLE Micro 5.0?

- Based on SLE 15 SP3
SLE Micro 5.1 is based on SLE 15 SP3 where SLE Micro 5.0 was based on SLE 15
SP2.
- SUSEConnect re-write
As we strive to make SLE Micro as minimal as possible we decided to
re-write SUSEConnect in a compiled language that does not come with a
dependency on a scripting language stack. We have decided to re-write
SUSEConnect in Go.
- Full 5G support (Planned, not yet included in Beta)
Initial testing with partners and customers has shown the support for
5G devices with the currently used networking stack based on wicked is
limited. With SLE Micro 5.1 the support for 5G client devices shall be
improved and expand to cover common devices.
- Secure Device Onboarding (SDO)
Secure Device Onboarding (SDO) will play a major role in upcoming edge
deployments. We therefore will provide an SDO client on SLE Micro 5.1.
The client will not be provided on the SLE Micro 5.1 images itself but
outside of the images.
- LivePatching
With SLE Micro being introduced in datacenter as a container host OS,
there is a need for specific datacenter feature, thus the
availability of live patching. We are going to provide LivePatching
with the final product SLE Micro 5.1. It is not yet available with this
beta2.

Call for feedback

We are eager and excited to retrieve your feedback on this new version
of our beloved SLE Micro product! As with any SUSE Public Beta
Program[4], we have a public mailing list[5] in place for technical
and product discussion as well as a bugzilla setup[6] to be used for bug
report.

Please refer to SLE Micro Beta web page[7] for more information.

More information

FAQ[8]
Feedback[9]
Known issues[10]

Questions?

If you have any questions, please contact us at
beta-programs at suse.com.

Your SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro team

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[1]:https://www.suse.com/products/micro/
[2]:https://suse.com/betaprogram/micro-beta
[3]:https://suse.com/betaprogram/micro-beta/#download
[4]:https://www.suse.com/betaprogram/beta/
[5]:https://suse.com/betaprogram/micro-beta/#mailinglist
[6]:https://suse.com/betaprogram/micro-beta/#bugzilla
[7]:https://suse.com/betaprogram/micro-beta/
[8]:https://suse.com/betaprogram/micro-beta/#faq
[9]:https://suse.com/betaprogram/micro-beta/#feedback
[10]:https://suse.com/betaprogram/micro-beta/#knownissues
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