Yesterday, November 19, the stable image of version 13.1 of the distribution was released openSUSE.This release is a version Evergreen, so it will have extended support.
The official duration of the support will be until May 1, 2015 for the regular version, and until November 1, 2016 for Evergreen 13.1.
This version comes with many improvements and features. According to the openSUSE team, the automated testing tool open QA It has undergone several improvements.
The same happened for the file system Btrfs, which is already considered stable for daily use. It comes with the latest version of Havana, and an updated Ruby 2.0 en rails 4.
GCC has been installed in version 4.8, along with the new glibsc with support for C11 y C ++ 11. The tool yast has been ported to Ruby, and the text rendering engine is FreeType 2.5.
Regarding the general user experience, the graphics will be supported VDPAU en Mesa; the devices of Android will have full integration in the file manager, shell and player Amarok.
Applied Experimental Technologies includes preliminary support from Wayland with Weston en GNOME-Shell, as well as the PlasmaDesktop de KDE.
I will download the image to test this version, and I will soon do a review on DesdeLinux. The ISOs of openSUSE 13.1 are downloaded from the following link:
I already downloaded it yesterday I'm installing it now to see !!!!!!!
Waiting for that review 🙂
Uff that envies, I just hope that they put it in the MES repo
I tested it in beta, and it didn't really catch my eye.
The power of opensuse is noticeable when you use it often and you see that you do not load it or want to, and everything has a cohesion that others would like. if it were not for opensuse, I have no idea what another distro could use
I have broken it several times xD, the external repositories are even less reliable than the ubuntu ppa, you get involved with yast and it starts asking you to delete useful things.
In itself it is very stable, but if it is true that it is a mess with the repositories ... Personally since I am in Arch / Manjaro / Chakra, I have not moved ....
Greetings.
When I used it it became unstable when using the Tumbleweed repos, which is just what I wanted to have a rolling experience like the distros you mention, but apparently with openSUSE it is better to use the evergreen ones (equivalent to an Ubuntu LTS, like this version ).
Well, it's already bad. Look that I have put programs via http://software.opensuse.org/packages/ and I've been updating from 11.1 to 12.3 and without problems, but as always, everyone has their own experiences.
What's more, with Open Build Service, it becomes quite easy (in quotes, it has a learning curve, like everything else) to manage your own rpm (or deb, whatever you want!) In your own repository. I find it a very good tool.
In any case, external repositories are always unreliable, after all they are made by a person / group of people who may (or may not) have an idea of what they are doing, and the system has nothing to do with it either (be PPA or openSUSE) ... in fact, I think the openSUSE system is quite superior, you click on the program, it tells you that it is going to add a repository, and there you have it .. In my opinion, it only needs to be added to the management of Yast on the desktop, so as not to search for them only via the web.
does not work as a sources.list
No, because otherwise it would be debian or based on debian.
But if you want to see the repos and their options in openSUSE, you can always do this:
cd /etc/zypp/repos.d
There a file is stored for each repository, you can make a backup if you want, a cat for each indicates its configuration, etc….
Any application (for example the Yast2 software manager) based on zypper uses these files to obtain the information of the sites from which the packages are downloaded.
I suppose you have done it thoroughly, because no matter how unreliable external repositories are, Yast alerts you at all times if something can be broken. I don't know what you have tried to install or from where to ask you to delete necessary packages, but at least with the most common community repositories, I tell you that it does not break just like that.
Well, it looks good… .but in LIVE mode I was not able to make the Wi-Fi work… neither with the laptop's built-in Wi-Fi nor with the external USB Wi-Fi antenna…
the rest of the distros ... they recognize everything automatically ... I was NEVER able to make opensuse work ... and it seems that this version will happen the same ...
it is surely my fault ..
Did you try to configure it from yast?
openSUSE by default uses ifup for the connection, from yast you can change the configuration so that it is managed by networkmanager
I think that is a blunder of Live (I think it was with the KDE version, I don't know if it happens with Gnome), once openSUSE is installed you must activate wireless connections from the panel icon (something present in all operating systems, I don't think it takes more than 1 sec to find it) and restart.
What is special about BTRFS about ext4?
CoW, subvolumes, snapshoot of subvolumes, data integrity check.
Contradictorily, the best thing about openSUSE is exactly what makes me stay away from this distro: Yast2.
I don't know why, but every time I try it I feel that something is missing .. or I see it very heavy, as if it were an elephant ..
And watch out, I know that it is a very good distribution, but I don't know ... something has that doesn't quite hook me (besides that I'm not a fan of rpm).
I'm not that much of a fan of .rpm either. I'm more of a fan of .deb, .pkg.tar.gz, .pkg.tar.xz and .txz.
… And most editors: p
The preference of the rpm vs deb is like the one that likes red or blue, it does not have a technological base but a sentimental one, or perhaps historical if any of those present suffered the famous rpmhell in their flesh, and there were no decent dependency managers and people installed fedora rpm in SUSE like crazy from internet pages to see if they were thrown (rpm bone, how bad you have done!), leading to disasters.
Currently, they work neither worse nor better, they are different schemes of how files are structured within another file (call it deb or rpm). They have some differences, and one has advantages that another does not. But when it comes to installing a dep or an rpm, those who break the cord are the dependency managers (apt-get, yum, zypper…) that manage them. And for me, zypper (the one I use) has nothing to envy to apt-get, maybe the speed in previous versions, but right now, it works great.
In the comparisons between these two systems, I am quite fed up with people who tell you: 'Well, rpm -f is disgusting and yet how cool is apt-get ...', and there you are already ojiplático, since they confuse a Dependency manager (apt-get), with the package, it seems that anything goes when it comes to destroying the rpm package, and most of the time it is nonsense.
In short, choosing to use one distro and another for the package / dependency manager that you currently use seems to me something that does not make any sense or has a technological base, unless it has so few programs in the chosen package / repositories that it prevents you from using programs that you need, which I think is not the case of openSUSE, which is quite well nourished.
Are you doing well? Do you have the programs you need? Well go ahead ...
That's what I think. It is that I do not understand that of preferring one type of package or another. Completely agree with you.
Well, I don't understand the fact of being a fan of a specific type of package, when they are installed in the same way: S
And in any case, I find in the RPM a very interesting utility, which is Delta-RPM, which makes the updates of the various packages lighter.
I loved Yast, even in terms of configuration options I find it superior to the Windows 7 control panel.
It seems very good or at least there is a lot of hype for this version (although it also looks good), very good reviews everywhere.
The only thing I can say is that YaST could improve something aesthetically (it would be nice if it looked as good as the Mageia / Mandriva / Mandrake control panel) but the truth is not something really important.
Well yes, there you are right .. Hopefully now that this version has been migrated to ruby (before it was in a very strange language), I hope that now more people can collaborate and throw a cable since ruby is a more popular language, add modules, polish the ones that exist, etc ...
It is one of the distros that I tried when I decided to switch to Linux. And although I finally settled on debian because it suited more to what I was looking for, I have to admit that openSuse is probably one of the most elegant distros that exist (if not the most) and yast is a joy 🙂
I love the Open !!!, it sure improves….
Before when I also liked to try distros hehehe I got to use openuse and the truth is that it is a great distro, but finally I liked the .deb more
When you say you like .deb better, do you mean the package system or Debian-derived distro? because if it is the former, as I have commented above, I cannot find any technical basis for it.
It is like a religious mantra installed in the minds of many:
-debs are better than rpm.
-why? Give me a reason
- because they say it out there, my cousin told me and I read it online.
Po fale
I could understand that they told you these types of statements 8 or 10 years ago, because apt-get is a great system but, as I said, for a few years we have had zypper that works like a charm.
Personally, I find YaST the best thing about openSuSE and I've never known why it hasn't been migrated to other distros. Having all the system configuration in one place is the most comfortable for a user.
Distro that I like but that always ends up boring me I don't know why xS
Excellent layout. Very stable and easy to use.