After milestones, betas, and release candidates, openSUSE Leap 42.1 has been released for public consumption!
You can read more at openSUSE News.
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openSUSE Leap 42.1 Released
Author: Bob Martens
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What am I doing now?
Inspired by Derek Sivers and his /now page, I’ve added a /now page to this site as well. You’ll find a list of the things that I am spending my time on and I’ll attempt to periodically update that list a things shift in the future.
Also, you can visit nownownow.com to see a list of other /now pages.
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openSUSE Happenings for Oct 2015
A lot of stuff is happening in the openSUSE community right now! I’ll just enumerate some of what is going on and continue to encourage everyone to get involved!
- The new homepage or openSUSE has been launched. It is far more dynamic, more useful than mobile devices, and will serve as the base for future changes to the other openSUSE sites.
- The first beta of openSUSE Leap 42.1 was released recently. Take it for a spin and file bug reports for any problems you face!
- Tumbleweed keeps rolling! Some major changes have been queued up for the future, so watch for those as well.
Also of some interest would be a Linux distro collaboration interview hosted by Mr. Lunduke with leadership from Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu taking part. It is a good video.
As always, interesting times ahead. With the release of Leap 42.1 quickly coming (SUSECon 2015 is only 31 days away), help is needed with testing and discussing the marketing potential for the changes in the community.
I’m really excited that this is out there! The first milestone of openSUSE Leap 42.1 was released today! You can read a lot more at that link, but this is a big first step for the new distribution and a great day for the entire openSUSE community.
The idea behind Leap is to combine some of the stability of SUSE Linux Enterprise with the vast array of packages available from the larger openSUSE community. With that steady base, the idea is to be able to support a single Leap release line (like Leap 42, or Leap 42, or Leap 44) for a longer period of time than a release was in the past.
This is new territory. It is not just a repackaging of the SLE sources (like CentOS) but a re-imagining of a longer-term-support distro utilizing the work being done on the SLE code base.
Download and test it out and report anything strange of broken so that they can be fixed before the (hopeful) release in November 2015!
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MacBook Impressions
I had some time to play around with the new MacBook at a couple of Apple Stores this week and I have a couple of first impressions about the device.
- It is super tiny, smaller than I was expecting. It is also really light. When commentators have called it “and iPad with a keyboard” they are not kidding. I’m impressed with what Apple was able to do.
- The touchpad is really, really nice. I’ve heard some complaints from people, but I’ve been a touch-to-click user as long as I can remember so the Force Touch Trackpad is a huge step forward as far as feedback is concerned.
- The keyboard is … different. Now having as much of any distance to press down makes the keyboard feel foreign, but I was able to type effectively after only a few minutes of use. I’d like to see that same engineering put to use in a keyboard with deeper presses and see how it feels. The keyboard itself was very solid, each keypress deliberate, but it could use some more distance.
Overall, I’d love to have one. It would instantly become my carry machine, maybe even replacing the iPad in most situations. It is not without tradeoffs, but an impressive machine.
I do not own one and only used it for a total of maybe 40 minutes between the two stores, so feel free to ignore everything I wrote above as well.