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OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 released

([Distributions] Jul 2, 2020 13:43 UTC (Thu) (corbet))


The [1]openSUSE Leap 15.2 release is now available; see the announcement for a long list of new features. " In general, software packages in the distribution grew by the hundreds. Data fusion, Machine Learning and AI aren't all that is new in openSUSE Leap 15.2; a Real-Time Kernel for managing the timing of microprocessors to ensure time-critical events are processed as efficiently as possible is available in this release. "



[1] https://news.opensuse.org/2020/07/02/opensuse-leap-15-2-release-brings-exciting-new-packages/

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 released

Ran an update yesterday during a video conference (on another machine!) on a heavily customized audio production machine. Went very smoothly, everything seems to work. Only downside is that the machine seemingly locked up for 10 minutes today - on closer look, it turned out that brtfs was doing some large-scale housekeeping... now back to normal.

Grew increasingly tired of 15.1 as it was ageing. I "downgraded" to it from Tumbleweed after the latter had exploded in my face once too often, but since I'm building much of my business software from source, it's nice to have a really recent system.

All in all, a very happy SUSE user here since 1998, although I hope they will be accelerating their release schedule again after the re-syncing with SLES. Kudos to all contributors!

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 released

Ran an update yesterday during a video conference (on another machine!) on a heavily customized audio production machine. Went very smoothly, everything seems to work. Only downside is that the machine seemingly locked up for 10 minutes today - on closer look, it turned out that brtfs was doing some large-scale housekeeping... now back to normal.

Grew increasingly tired of 15.1 as it was ageing. I "downgraded" to it from Tumbleweed after the latter had exploded in my face once too often, but since I'm building much of my business software from source, it's nice to have a really recent system.

All in all, a very happy SUSE user here since 1998, although I hope they will be accelerating their release schedule again after the re-syncing with SLES. Kudos to all contributors!

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 released

I find the snapshot stability checks very informative to see when it makes sense to update or to what date (with tumbleweed the command):

[1]https://review.tumbleweed.boombatower.com/

Otherwise it feels almost like running Factory.

[1] https://review.tumbleweed.boombatower.com/

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 released

I find the snapshot stability checks very informative to see when it makes sense to update or to what date (with tumbleweed the command):

[1]https://review.tumbleweed.boombatower.com/

Otherwise it feels almost like running Factory.

[1] https://review.tumbleweed.boombatower.com/

Red Hat Unveils New Ad Campaign

Linux distributor Red Hat has announced plans for a $650,000 ad campaign. The
ads will appear on several major newspapers as well as on a few selected
websites. "These ads will be targetted towards Windows users who are fed up but
aren't aware of any OS alternatives," a Red Hat spokesman said. "We feel that
there is a large audience for this."

One of the ads will be a half page spread showing two computers side-by-side: a
Wintel and a Linux box. The title asks "Is your operating system ready for the
year 2000?" Both computers have a calendar/clock display showing. The Windows
box shows "12:00:01AM -- January 1, 1900" while the Linux box shows "12:00:01AM
-- January 1, 2000". The tagline at the bottom says "Linux -- a century ahead
of the competition."