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
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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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The Future openSUSE release is …
Thanks to the openSUSE Board for coming to a quick decision and getting the community moving forward with this new project. I look forwarding to “kicking the tires” as the project moves forward.
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Tumbleweed Updated to GCC 5
Today’s Tumbleweed snapshot upgraded the rolling distro from GCC 4.8 to GCC 5!
It has been very quiet on the openSUSE Tumbleweed front for the past few weeks as efforts were put into recompiling the entire distribution against the newer version of GCC. This surfaced many errors and bugs that have been squashed by the community and today the greater openSUSE community is able to benefit from that effort.
Moving to GCC 5 is just another huge push from the Tumbleweed developers in a string of big changes for the distro. GNOME 3.16, KDE Plasma 5.3, and Linux Kernel 4.0 have all been pushed out in recent snapshots as well. This is a huge amount of effort from the developers in the community.
Thanks everyone!