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openSUSE 12.2 released
The openSUSE
12.2 release is now available. "The latest release of the
world’s most powerful and flexible Linux Distribution brings you speed-ups
across the board with a faster storage layer in Linux 3.4 and accelerated
functions in glibc and Qt, giving a more fluid and responsive desktop. The
infrastructure below openSUSE has evolved, bringing in mature new
technologies like GRUB2 and Plymouth and the first steps in the direction
of a revised and simplified UNIX file system hierarchy. Users will also
notice the added polish to existing features bringing an improved user
experience all over. The novel Btrfs file system comes with improved error
handling and recovery tools, GNOME 3.4, developing rapidly, brings smooth
scrolling to all applications and features a reworked System Settings and
Contacts manager while XFCE has an enhanced application finder."
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openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 5, 2012 14:25 UTC (Wed) by Zea (guest, #86552) [Link]
Downloading now. GNOME edition.
It is sad to the KDE version is already tailing one release. The same will be true for GNOME in a month.
openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 5, 2012 14:29 UTC (Wed) by zonker (subscriber, #7867) [Link]
Generally, latest releases of KDE can be installed on openSUSE pretty easily via the Open Build Service. I don't know what the state of that is currently - I'm not a KDE guy - but I'm pretty sure they'd be able to point you in the right direction on the mailing lists.
openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 5, 2012 14:37 UTC (Wed) by Zea (guest, #86552) [Link]
Enabling newly built OBS sources kind a defeats the purpose of having a well tested distribution. Besides it would not be fair to openSUSE since they fought so hard to do this release. GNOME just seem to be the better fit for having a well tested and yet new desktop.
openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 5, 2012 14:48 UTC (Wed) by lmb (subscriber, #39048) [Link]
Tumbleweed will soon come to your rescue on 12.2 too ;-)
openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 5, 2012 14:33 UTC (Wed) by wstephenson (subscriber, #14795) [Link]
As Zonker says, latest KDE is available in the openSUSE Build Service. This release date fell on the knife edge between KDE releases, and then the delay extended it past the 4.9 release. Since the delay was to add stabilization, rushing 4.9.0 in was a bad idea.
I recommend you wait until tomorrow then add KDE:Release:49 repo (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/4...) as 4.9.1, released yesterday, is now building vs openSUSE 12.2. This has a lot of fixes vs 4.9.0.
openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 5, 2012 14:41 UTC (Wed) by Zea (guest, #86552) [Link]
Im looking for a combination of new and well tested. GNOME seems like a natural choice for now. Maybe I will test in a month when GNOME 3.4 is "obsolete" like KDE 4.8 and KDE 4.9 is smoke tested.
openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 5, 2012 14:56 UTC (Wed) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
I've run KDE 4.9 with OpenSuse 12.2 for more than a month now -- without a single problem. I'll update to 4.9.1 tomorrow, but I found 4.9.0 very stable and very good.
openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 5, 2012 23:08 UTC (Wed) by xorbe (subscriber, #3165) [Link]
> Since the delay was to add stabilization,
> rushing 4.9.0 in was a bad idea.
Thank you for not succumbing to Mandriva syndrome. Solid release > absolutely latest versions.
openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 8, 2012 2:05 UTC (Sat) by whitemice (guest, #3748) [Link]
I have it on good authority that GNOME 3.6 will be released in an 'official' repository by the end of September. Then GNOME will be current; and 3.6 is the most exciting release since 3.0.
openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 5, 2012 16:10 UTC (Wed) by safrax (guest, #83688) [Link]
"accelerated functions in glibc and Qt"
What's this mean exactly?
openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 5, 2012 16:27 UTC (Wed) by krakensden (subscriber, #72039) [Link]
I think glibc, at least, has seen a burst of development after the old maintainer left.
openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 5, 2012 21:35 UTC (Wed) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
'stuff is faster'. Very noticeable in for example zypper, which feels like it has a fire lit up under its ass, yet there have been no changes in the speed area in zypper other than the recompile and newer glibc.
openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 6, 2012 6:26 UTC (Thu) by yoshi314 (guest, #36190) [Link]
afaik this release of glibc has yet again introduced some more sse2/3/4 and architecture specific optimizations.
openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 5, 2012 20:44 UTC (Wed) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]
Excellent. 12.1 has been working well for me, I'm looking forward to this one.
openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 10, 2012 13:45 UTC (Mon) by whitemice (guest, #3748) [Link]
Same here, 12.1 has been excellent (stable and fast). 12.2 looks to be just more of the same - a solid LINUX desktop.
openSUSE 12.2 released Posted Sep 27, 2012 11:05 UTC (Thu) by whitemice (guest, #3748) [Link]
And the update on both my laptops - flawless. Everything just works. Typical openSUSE - the LINUX distribution without the drama.
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