OpenSuse Leap 42.x

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Hey folks :gsmile:

I came across some news on DW and followed the blog lead to another site. Evidently, and as far as I can read it, it seems that Opensuse, a great and very stable OS, is coming out with a new name for it's regular distribution.

Here's some brief info on it:


....openSUSE Leap 42.x

We felt that Leap, with reference to motion, i.e. how the distribution
moves forward, provides a nice contrast to Tumbleweed.....



....Finally it leaves the door open for plenty of options should there be
other efforts to create an openSUSE release based on Factory snapshots
at some point in the future....

That's about as much info on it as it gets. More info at this link:

[opensuse-announce] The Name & Version for the new openSUSE Regular Rele (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2015-07/msg00000.html)

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Update from a day or so ago:


The openSUSE team has announced the availability of new testing images for the upcoming openSUSE Leap 42.1 release. The new testing release, called openSUSE Leap 42.1 Milestone 2, introduces several new changes. "Milestone 2 replaced the complete base system and replaced the full YaST stack. New versions in the milestone release include Firefox 40, Thunderbird 38.2, digiKam photo management program 4.11 and the YaST stack of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 1. The latest stable Linux Kernel 4.1.6 is in Milestone 2 and git is updated to version 2.5.0. The kernel-firmware update is 20150715. Apache updates to 2.4.16 and Btrfs to 4.1.2. KDE Plasma has update 15.04.3, which include Long Term Support versions of Plasma Workspaces 4.11.21. GNOME 3.16 has a refresh and LibreOffice 4.3 based on SLE 12 is pending an upgrade to LibreOffice 5."

Link: Development Release: openSUSE 42.1 Milestone 2 (DistroWatch.com News) (http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=09088)

If your interested in the latest KDE plasma information, the link is here: [URL="https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.4.0.php"]https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.4.0.php[/URL
And I do believe that the latest kernel is as stated in the quote. Quite stable, too as I've experienced.

The next latest kernel will be 4.2. You can go to kernel.org to see that if you like.