Release Candidate (RC1) of Leap 42.1 is out and with it comes more packages as well as a new office suite. LibreOffice 5 is in the RC1 and about 400 more packages made it in the RC1 release, which were not in the Beta. Leap is less about the newest updates, which is the purpose of Tumbleweed and its frequent snapshots; Leap is more about relevance and purposeful updates and packages that provide users prolonged, stable and enterprise-level functionality. Leap has newer, community packages built on core SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) source code for a more stable base. Of the 7,000-plus packages in Leap, 1,500 are from SLE.
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