openSUSE Factory and Tumbleweed to Merge

The openSUSE project has announced that the “Factory” and “Tumbleweed” distributions will merge into a single rolling distribution (called “Tumbleweed”). There is also an FAQ posting about the merger. “With the vast improvements to the Factory development process over the last 2 years, we effectively found ourselves as a project with not one, but two rolling release distributions in addition to our main regular release distribution. GregKH signalled his intention to stop maintaining Tumbleweed as a ‘rolling-released based on the current release’. It seemed a natural decision then to bring both the Factory rolling release and Tumbleweed rolling release together, so we can consolidate our efforts and make openSUSE’s single rolling release as stable and effective as possible.“