Release of openSUSE 13.2

The community of OpenSUSE distro announced the release of the final version, 13.2 after months of constant development, the new version comes with several updates, such as the Linux kernel 3.16 and GNOME Desktop 3.14, KDE 4.11 and 4.14,XFCE and the latest stable version of LXDE desktop environment.

Btrfs Filesystem has become is the default filesystem in openSUSE 13.2 for the root (/) while XFS is the default filesystem the Home folder (/ home), which is considered a significant change to the level of performance and speed, in fact, also been several improvements made to the package management application of openSUSE so-called "Yast2" such as removing support for GRUB Legacy and focus on supporting the GRUB 2 just as well to restructure Sticky distribution and make it more automatic in the performance of tasks, as well as to improve the formal aesthetic of the overall distribution and update all packets to the latest versions.

Speaking of KDE, Kda plasma 5 became available in the official repositories for anyone who wants to try it, and KDE 3.5 for those who wants to stay on it, GNOME Shell 3.14 is pre-existing and its applications, interface MATE 1.8 is also available official repository, also have been added several scientific applications to their own official repository such as Pythia and Yoda and Cadabra, in addition to many other features.

To download the version of openSUSE 13.2, click here.

     

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openSUSE integrated two projects (Tumbleweed and Factory) in one

openSUSE has always been of the distributions that Appeal to me, not for anything, but because they are adaptable and really has a lot of beautiful sub-projects for all categories of users, and one of these projects is the Tumbleweed project. 

Tumbleweed is a special repository for openSUSE that contains the latest available versions of the various packages, designed to the latest software and tools to provide users of this distribution, which is a very popular repository due to the number of packets in which it resides, once added to the distro openSUSE, the distribution is considered a Rolling Release like Arch Linux, now there is another named "Factory" project, a project of the Factory consists of two things: the official developmental versions of distro openSUSE (mean files iso for the project), in addition to the repository, the Factory, which is the other contains the latest developmental versions available from the packages, which also once added to your system, it turns into a rolling distro like Arch Linux (because you will have updates every day). 

The good news today for users of openSUSE is that both projects, Tumbleweed and Factory will merge under the name of Tumbleweed ! This means the unification of efforts in order to create a single repository contains the latest packages, programs and tools to be a good choice for anyone who wants openSUSE distro and be rolling at the same time, will also be the launch name "Tumbleweed Release" on the developmental versions name of the distro openSUSE, starting from 4 November 2014 the Factory repository will be re-directed automatically to the Tumbleweed repositories to be the merger process. 

Incidentally, the version of openSUSE 13.2 will be launched after 8 days, to follow the news here's the official website of the distribution : https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:13.2

     

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MICRO FOCUS buy ATTACHMATE the owner of SUSE LINUX

Nearly two years ago, Attachmate Group announced the acquisition of Novell, sponsors SUSE Linux distro (latter supports the distribution openSUSE) compared to 2.2 billion dollars (and before that, bought Novell SUSE Linux in 2003, compared with 140 million dollars), everything went just fine and did not no change regarding SUSE and openSUSE, as you know, it's the Business.

Now and in the news again, Mirco Focus announced  for the acquisition of Attachmate Group for 2.3 billion dollars and therefore are acquired also projects Novell and SUSE Linux, the new company is a software company based in Britain - London, aims through the process to purchase these to provide products and related services for the Linux system and the field of hosting generally serve the objectives of the company.

Nils Brauckmann general manager of the SUSE Linux calls openSUSE Society , and said :

It is the Business as usual: no changes planned for the structural project SUSE or its administration, as there is no need to take any action by the community openSUSE as a result of this announcement, SUSE will continue to contribute to the open source community and will continue to list the projects in the field of business, and will remain supportive of the openSUSE project and society.

The situation will remain as it was with Suse and Opensuse .. the latest version of openSUSE (13.1) is very mature and you can download it from here.

     

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