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by bleepblorp 2049 days ago
JeOS is the SUSE OS for small footprint virtualized environments.

I'm not too sure what niche MicroOS is supposed to fill that JeOS and the full-weight Leap don't already cover.

MicroOS just seems to be answer to RedHat's Silverblue, but with no clear use case in the SUSE/openSUSE product lineup. It makes some sense as a tech demo for an immutable OS, but not much sense as an operational product.

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JeOS it's a striped down version of a full blown linux bistro. Think Like RH,Centos. Can be used as a VM os or for anything else.

MicroOS it's a cloud OS linux, more like: CoreOS, RancherOS, AtomicOS. I think it's a default choose for Kubernetes environments.

I've been using JeOS for k8s hosts of Rancher environments since RancherOS was deprecated and I'm glad that they finally released a cloud OS like MicroOS. In case of k8s upgrades, rollbacks and upgrades need to me minimised as much as possible. This OS allow to have all of that in a breeze since it's all based on static images.

JeOS is just a minimal installation into a VM harddisk, that's where the differences end. So it's actually more of a different installation/deployment method than a different distro.
So it's for Kubernetes nodes, VMs and bare metal?
yup