For most regular desktop users, I expect this change to not make a difference in practice since this seems to be the culmination of an overall change in openSUSE offerings since the promotion of Tumbleweed to a real rolling (snapshotted) release. (I myself recently chose Debian 8 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for servers). Journalists covering SUSE have speculated that this change to the regular release is a competitive move to provide a free but stable version suitable for servers in the same way that Red Hat provides CentOS for the same use case. Until 6 months after new minor version release In addition the lifetime of the releases has been increased by aligning the minor version's of Leap with SLE service packs. This doesn't mean that the software included in Leap will be out-of-date, as Leap includes kernel version 4.1.12 (an LTS series), GNOME 3.16.4, and KDE Plasma 5.4.2, but I suspect software such as these will not be updated to newer versions until Leap 42.2, except for security fixes. Users who want stability overall can choose Leap, while users who want newer software can choose the rolling release - Tumbleweed. This change allows the product offerings to better complement each other while meeting the priorities of users. This change is accomplished by basing the core of Leap on the SUSE Linux Enterprise product, on top of which the openSUSE community can add components that it desires and will maintain. OpenSUSE's regular release this year, now given the name "Leap" has some major changes designed to increase stability, while providing up-to-date, if not leading edge, software.
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