A hint on the future direction of SUSE Linux Enterprise

SUSE has begun todiscuss its plans for the next version of SUSE Linux Enterprise on theopenSUSE lists. It appears that there will be some significant changes.

Intending to do radical changes (regarding technology-but also design-wise) we choose "Adaptable Linux Platform" or short"ALP" as codename for that next generation. This indicates alreadythat some things will be quite different than a "mere "SLE 15++would be ;) [...]

Another important point is that we intend to split what was a moregeneric, everything is closely intertwined into two parts: Onesmaller hardware enabling piece, a kind of "host OS", and the andthe layer providing and supporting applications, which will becontainer (and VM) based.