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Tom Skinner launches NWVA recruitment drive, with jobs for recovery drivers, windscreen technicians and call centre staff in Essex, London and across the UK.

Whether it's an epic adventure or a dream trip abroad, a new campaign wants to know what Britons are desperate to experience before it's too late.

“We expected aim to matter ... What surprised us was how much,' says Sandia physicist Nathan Moore

On Sunday, Brooklyn Beckham shared photos from a LA Halloween party the trio attended over the weekend. One photo showed him standing awkwardly behind his wife Nicola and Damian Hurley.

Shabana Mahmood hinted at concerns about a return to open-border rules despite the PM ordering ministers to keep their views under wraps.

Christina Applegate has revealed she is being tested for lupus and Lyme disease.

The convicted armed robber, 73, has a parole hearing due to conclude today and that could see him be released after decades in prison.

An unusual former chapel in an Essex seaside town has gone on the market with a guide price of £135,000.

An unusual former chapel in an Essex seaside town has gone on the market with a guide price of £135,000.

Retention CEO Adam Robinson and his family were killed Sunday when the private jet they were travelling on crashed near West Palm Beach, Florida.

Heinz Cream of Tomato soup has been a staple for generations of Britons. But in recent years, headlines have suggested it may not be as healthy as it seems...

Ice and the weather were 'certainly a factor' in the private jet crash in Florida on Sunday afternoon, according to federal officials.

A husband who drugged and raped his wife arranged for sedatives to be posted to his dead mother-in-law's address, a court was told today.

The Government has recently concluded a public consultation on a proposal to reduce the perceived noise of fireworks that can be sold in shops by around 50 per cent.

Police in Spain have launched a homicide investigation into the on-pitch collision that led to the death of a Spanish footballer.

In the footage, officers from the Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit - a banking industry-funded police unit - smashed down the door of an East Midlands home in an early-morning raid.

Zulma Guzman Castro (pictured), who is accused of murdering the two girls, was discovered to be hiding in Britain after she was seen drinking from a Buxton water bottle during a TV interview.

by George Whittaker

The openSUSE Project has officially released openSUSE Leap 16.1, introducing a major change to how the distribution can be installed, maintained, and deployed. Released on November 3, 2026, the update brings an integrated Immutable Mode that allows users to install a transactionally updated operating system with a read-only root filesystem, while continuing to offer the traditional Linux installation model.

The new approach also marks the beginning of the end for openSUSE Leap Micro as a separate distribution. Its functionality is now incorporated into Leap 16.1, giving administrators a unified platform for desktops, conventional servers, container hosts, virtual machines, and edge computing environments. Users can select the installation model that best fits their workloads without switching to an entirely different openSUSE product.

Beyond the new installation architecture, Leap 16.1 updates KDE Plasma to version 6.6, retains GNOME 48 with additional maintenance fixes, introduces LXQt 2.4, and continues using the Linux 6.12 long-term support kernel series. The release also expands container tooling, improves system monitoring, updates security components, and introduces changes designed to make enterprise-oriented Linux deployments more predictable.

Immutable Mode Becomes the Defining Feature of Leap 16.1

The most important addition to openSUSE Leap 16.1 is its new Immutable Mode, which allows the operating system to use a read-only root filesystem and transactional updates. Instead of modifying the active operating system directly whenever packages are installed or updated, the immutable configuration prepares changes in a separate filesystem snapshot.

This approach differs from a conventional Linux installation, where package managers typically modify files in the active root filesystem. On a traditional system, an update can replace libraries, executables, and configuration components while applications continue running. Although Linux package managers handle these operations carefully, interrupted updates or incompatible package combinations can sometimes leave a system in an inconsistent state.

Immutable Mode reduces this risk by preparing operating-system changes separately from the currently running environment. Updates become active after a reboot, allowing the system to start using a consistent set of packages and configuration changes. If an update introduces problems, administrators can return to an earlier snapshot rather than manually reversing individual package modifications.

The underlying technology is not entirely new to openSUSE. Similar functionality has been available through Leap Micro, which was designed for lightweight, transactionally updated server and infrastructure deployments. What changes in Leap 16.1 is that this operating model becomes an installation choice within the main Leap distribution.

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Ongar Garden Centre unveils Christmas events including Breakfast with Santa, festive dinners and afternoon tea for families across Essex this Christmas season.

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