openSUSE Leap 16 is finally released this week on Wednesday 1 October 2025 with the headline "Embrace the chameleon". This openSUSE Leap release is aligned with its enterprise family OS, SUSE Linux Enterprise 16, which brings a lot of improvements and security fixes. openSUSE is an European, rich and wealthy computer operating system based on Free Libre Open Source Software which is available for almost all kinds of computer including desktop, laptop, server, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices with abilities to be installed both with and without internet access. This article listed openSUSE Leap 16 download links including torrents and checksums. Happy downloading!

 

 

Download Leap 16

This is the openSUSE Leap 16 full installer for desktops, laptops and servers. Alternatively, the netinstall is the small version which requires internet access to complete the installation. As there are many choices of openSUSE Leap, if you don't know what to choose, simply download this DVD below.

DVD: [DOWNLOAD]

Alternative Netinstall: [DOWNLOAD] 

 

 

 

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Download Leap for ARM Computers

This is the openSUSE Leap 16 for single board computers (SBC) and Internet of Things (IoT) such as Raspberry Pi and the others.

DVD: [DOWNLOAD]

Alternative netinstall: [DOWNLOAD]

 

 (Raspberry Pi 5, first introduced in 2023, a primary example of modern ARM computers. Image Source: Wikipedia. By © Anil Öztas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)

 

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Download Leap for POWERPC Computers

This is the openSUSE Leap for PowerPC 64-bit little-endian (ppc64le). This particular family of computer architecture is more known as Apple Mac G5, Sony Playstation 3, and Microsoft Xbox in the past and IBM POWER8 to POWER 9 today. A popular product example today would be Raptor Talos  computers.

DVD: [DOWNLOAD]

Alternative netinstall: [DOWNLOAD]

 

 (Summit, a supercomputer, was a super example of computers based on POWER9 architecture. Source: Wikipedia. By Carlos Jones/ORNL - flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)

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Download Leap for LinuxONE / s390x Computers

This is the openSUSE Leap for IBM LinuxONE mainframe computers or any other machines based on s390x architecture. 

DVD: [DOWNLOAD]

Alternative netinstall: [DOWNLOAD]

 (IBM LinuxOne (right, with an orange stripe) is an excellent example of computer based on s290x architecture. Image source: Wikipedia. By Agiorgio - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)

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TORRENTS

This is the list of torrents of all openSUSE Leap above. It is a highly recommended way to download openSUSE as you will get faster download speed and at the same time decrease load burdens to community servers. You can use the applications Transmission (GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS), KTorrent (Kubuntu), LibreTorrent (Android) to do the download. Learn to use torrents here.

Leap: [TORRENT]

Leap netinstall: [TORRENT]

Leap ARM64: [TORRENT]

Leap ARM64 netinstall: [TORRENT] 

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Checksums 

These are the SHA256SUM list of openSUSE Leap 16. Learn about verifying your downloaded ISO here.

c90b77418c63d3b652e14cab177d51d32b8b5bb2e2f58f22e28cb0a83254a570  Leap-16.0-offline-installer-aarch64-Build171.1.install.iso

87d40549515d34cb6baaae2ea57b6547091d50626da1c0fad50fecdfe62a7c07  Leap-16.0-online-installer-x86_64.install.iso

c90b77418c63d3b652e14cab177d51d32b8b5bb2e2f58f22e28cb0a83254a570  Leap-16.0-offline-installer-aarch64.install.iso

abe795b96013bd3a885bd9d69b6451a590c36dfc133c9f3cca82ac052057f636  Leap-16.0-online-installer-aarch64.install.iso

6031e83a931b4205a9ab0c980719b0f392d28a01e72ea44e94b5c7c6a8bfe869  Leap-16.0-offline-installer-ppc64le.install.iso

6f14b9733796c8e5bf139858103c9ac4aab2c38deb1ae51e3f3a9c1290e3d131  Leap-16.0-online-installer-ppc64le.install.iso

90d86ba2a07ed77ad9fe6f77b70f87b868c4ee3f0edecf29af9f1bdeaf1a9065  Leap-16.0-offline-installer-s390x.install.iso

3b276df185eb29f642705ff846f6d15cc2128ebe5c67d5bb66f9f995b9ecfc33  Leap-16.0-online-installer-s390x.install.iso 

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Notes

openSUSE Leap 16 now requires at minimum x86-64-v2 (PC 64-bit version two) processor. Official documentation states that you should check your CPU whether it is supported or not. See References section below.  

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About openSUSE

openSUSE (www.opensuse.org) is a computer operating that is free and open source from GNU/Linux family with a green lizard logo and is connected to its commercial version SUSE Linux Enterprise developed by SUSE Gmbh, a German company, in open collaboration with world wide community. It is well known for its user friendliness thanks to its setup program, called Agama (formerly YaST), that helps computer users to control all aspects of their computing, as well as its richness and wealth of advanced technology like Open Build Service and OpenQA. Its package management tool is called Zypper and its software package format is RPM. It is currently ranked 12th among the most popular GNU/Linux OSes in the world accoding to Distrowatch.com. Last but not least, openSUSE opens contribution where everyone can work together to create the best operating system ever by joining the team. See References section below.

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References

Leap 16 Release Announcement

openSUSE's Official Download Page

What are amd64, i386 and ppc64el? 

Official Documentation

Checking your x86-64-v2 computer compatibility  

Donate to openSUSE  

How to contribute to and join the openSUSE Project

openSUSE's Source Code  

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